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From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: MINIX Security
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Date: 22 Mar 91 17:07:51 GMT

In <9103212014@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org
(Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes:

>In Short: cracking a properly set up MINIX system _can_ be hard...

... if it's running on a machine with hardware memory protection.  Cracking
a Minix on an 8088 or any other processor which allows anyone to access
any memory address is easy.  Does Minix for the '386 or the 680?0 support
hardware memory protection?  (I assume so.)

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David F. Skoll