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From: gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: How secure should computers be?
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Date: 29 Jun 91 02:21:04 GMT
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In article <memo.1122425@lynx.northeastern.edu> cschmidt@lynx.northeastern.edu writes:
>> Well, back in pre-UNIX days, computers _were_ secure, and serious
>> programmers (the kind of people who hang out here) didn't like it.
>> You couldn't see any files other than your own... you couldn't run
>> a process in the background... and so on.

>> I'm amused that the same kind of people who hated secure operating
>> systems when they had them, now claim operating systems should be
>> more secure.

These other operating systems weren't secure either.  There were all
sorts of bugs and problems with them.  Same with all operating systems
today.

David