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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DiskCopy disk images
Keywords: apple //
Message-ID: <53438@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 12:13:03 GMT
References: <1991May23.060125.29918@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <53394@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May29.011456.22141@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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In article <1991May29.011456.22141@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>[...]
>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...

So?  They could tamper with the original floppy, too, with the pretty Apple
disk label on it.  Printing the "real" DiskCopy checksum on the fancy label
would help a little.
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