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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Protecting against copying from hard disks
Message-ID: <414@catnip.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 19:01:53 EST
Article-I.D.: catnip.414
Posted: Tue Nov 11 19:01:53 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Nov-86 21:59:36 EST
References: <836@ur-tut.UUCP> <579@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> <278@rocky2.UUCP>
Reply-To: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
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In article <278@rocky2.UUCP> reintom@rocky2.UUCP (Tom Reingold) writes:
>In article <579@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>, madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim Frost) writes:
><How about:
><Go through COMMAND.COM and find the COPY command.  This is really easy to do
><with Norton Utilities.  Make it anything you want, the more bizarre the better.
>That's not so hard to thwart unless there are no floppy drives on the
>machine.  Someone can walk in with a DOS disk, boot from it, and copy any
>file off the hard disk.

It occurs to me that an easy way to implement this idea might be to cut
the power line to the floppy and install an IBM-AT style keyswitch at this
point.

That way, the machine can be accessed by authorized personnel, but other
users would only be able to use the hard disk.


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Ben Broder
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