Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Protecting files on a PC (was: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art) Message-ID: <1991Mar31.181141.27355@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <1991Mar28.051303.4703@grebyn.com> <1991Mar29.184119.5083@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Mar30.034058.12230@grebyn.com> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 18:11:41 GMT In article <1991Mar30.034058.12230@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: > 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 all true... if you can defeat the physical security all else is irrelevant. But there's more to physical security than access to the power switch. You need to get my data together with your software. If I can keep them apart then multiuser security is quite effective. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .