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From: katinsky@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (David Katinsky)
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Subject: Re: Looking through other users' (unprotected) files
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Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 16:25:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 16:25:32 1986
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<At  our place, there is a Committee on Privacy that worries about
<such things.  Their major concern was that we could not teach our
<four or  five  thousand  novices  about  chmod  BEFORE  they  had
<casually  created private files which others would then browse --
<in other words: were users giving informed consent or just  using
<a defualt of "friendly" which novices (the reasonable man?) would
<not  expect?

	What about a default umask????
-- 
"Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it......" 
						Monty Python's Life of Brian
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