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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DiskCopy disk images
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Message-ID: <1991May29.011456.22141@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 01:14:56 GMT
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dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:

>Every version of DiskCopy I've seen can save disk images as files--it's
>very handy to save them to hard disks or network servers.  -- How is
>that a security problem?  Is it easier to modify a disk image than a
>disk?

It's a security problem because then people could use DiskCopy to archive
virused software and pass them off as golden masters. Of course the checksums
would be different, but very few typical end users really verify that sort of
thing. Most of them rely on the salesmen...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu