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From: xtdn@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Unix security additions
Message-ID: <15996.27e4cf9a@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 04:02:57 GMT
References: <1819@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <1991Mar11.174711.4027@decuac.dec.com> <1991Mar12.102415.22627@kithrup.COM> <1991Mar12.185154.2423@decuac.dec.com> <9128@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
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terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM writes:
> according to this acquaintance, there is a concept of "secure" windows, (and
> natch, there is also a concept of "non-secure" windows..) And one of the things
> one can NOT do is "cut" from a "secure" window, and then "paste" into a "non-
> secure" window. Can't have that "sensitive" guv`mint data released to the
> masses, I guess.....

Presumably one cannot TYPE in a non-secure window either?  Can't have that
"sensitive" guv`mint data typed by hand, either, can we?

:-)


David Newall, who no longer works       Phone:  +61 8 344 2008
for SA Institute of Technology          E-mail: xtdn@lux.sait.edu.au
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