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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: GNU Security (was Re: FSF et all)
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 21:32:55 EDT
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There is a difference between security and protection.
I hope there is no doubt that simple write protection and
things like that are needed.  These things are necessary
to keep fun loving and benign users from accidentally
blowing themselves or others away.  For instance, it is
not fun to have everyones memory space shared among every
one else such that when one person's program goes bonkers
it scribbles over everyone else's memory.