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From: tim@hpfcla.UUCP (tim)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 01:50:00 EDT
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I personally am not a real security fanatic, myself.

The 'dongle' approach is nice for another reason - if you have two
systems (identical) you can take the dongle with you (i.e. work-home).

One of the responses mentioned a 'port limitation' problem.  The one
'dongle' I have seen was an IEEE-488 (HP-IB, GPIB,...) style.  The
great thing about IEEE-488 is that you can keep stacking things on it
(up to a 14 device limit - but you could use extenders up to 31).

You can break them by using a hardware analyzer of some sort, but it
would have to be a pretty fancy analyzer depending on the style of 
'dongle'.

Tim Mikkelsen
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