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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Protecting files on a PC (was: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art)
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.034058.12230@grebyn.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:40:58 GMT
References: <7840@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Mar28.051303.4703@grebyn.com> <1991Mar29.184119.5083@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <1991Mar29.184119.5083@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1991Mar28.051303.4703@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>> This goes with my other philosophy, about granting user account
>> privileges on any computer system.  The user that can reach the power
>> switch has all the privileges, and you'd better get used to that.
>
>You can reboot the IBM-PC clone in my bedroom all you want, and unless
>you bring your own O/S in with you you will not be able to defeat the
>multiuser protection. I do not own a copy of MS-DOS. I do not have an
>MS-DOS disk in my entire apartment. To get that data you have to walk
>out with it.

If I were truly interested in your data I might just carry it off.  Then I
can extract your hard drive, and plug it in as drive 2 of my own set up.
If there are further difficulties, I get out the sector editor.

(This is really speculation; I'd never actually come and raid your
apartment!  That would be really unfriendly and uncivilized...)

You could still keep me from use of your data by encrypting it; and this
assumes that you're willing to suffer the overhead of encrypting and
decrypting as you use it yourself.  And I still might crack it, not that
I'm personally very good at that, though I have cracked a few.

But best of all is to keep your data where I can't touch it.  Then not
only do I *not* get it, but also you get to keep it.
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