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From: sdh@joevax.UUCP (The Doctor)
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Subject: Re: How can we protect sensitive data on a HD20?
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Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 12:42:18 EDT
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>   How can we keep people from just going over to the HD20 and
> browsing around?  We could do some sort of encryption, but that would
> be a real pain.  We could install a locking power switch on the HD20,
> but that would mean turing it off EVERY night, which Apple doesn't
> seem to recommend.  Any ideas?
> -- 

You could try setting the invisible bit of the files so that people
can't see them.  They can't browse through what they can't see.

Another alternative is to change the file type and creator fields to
something non-existent.  That way the files can't be opened (but they can still
be thrown away).

Steve Hawley
joevax!sdh