Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mcnc!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art Message-ID: <1991Apr6.070452.5903@ncsu.edu> Date: 6 Apr 91 07:04:52 GMT References: <1991Apr2.171837.27186@ncsu.edu> <27FA06D4.4D68@tct.com> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 19 chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >According to kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling): >>* For example, when a friend of mine loans out his multiuser system to a >> club for a demo, he doesn't worry about his source code and other private >> information still being on disk; the login and security protects him. > >Bad example. Give me a boot disk, and I'll read anything on your hard >disk, including root-only files. Yes, but in the case I was thinking about when I wrote that, his machine always boots straight from hard disk. This is more than sufficient to prevent browsers at a club demo from stumbling upon private info. Now obviously a determined and evil-minded person could get around security on almost any system, but then, you usually try not to let someone like that get physically near your computer . If he gets that close, he could simply steal the hard disk and read it at leisure on his system. cheers - kevin