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From: rhc@ptsfa.UUCP (Robert Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Hiding Files?
Message-ID: <1091@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 02:07:24 EST
Article-I.D.: ptsfa.1091
Posted: Fri Jan 10 02:07:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 06:28:44 EST
References: <1236@pucc-i> <501@nicmad.UUCP>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
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Keywords: files, security
Summary: Secret?  Are you sure?

The number of replies seen here makes me wonder just how safe
this sort of thing is.  If you use these schemes, I hope you 
know your user doesn't read.  R/O and SYS (hidden) files have
been around since the stone ages of CP/M - well, at least CP/M
2.2, as far as I know.  
If you think this is a good way of hiding 'secret' files, I
wish you luck - AND DUMB USERS.
-- 
Robert Cohen
San Francisco, California
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