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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: appletalk/mac security
Summary: In search of the elusive security blanket.
Keywords: Computer Security, Viruses, Compromised Passwords
Message-ID: <43144@linus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 13:34:12 GMT
References: <66000029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sender: news@linus.UUCP
Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort)
Organization: Neurotic Netware, Dendrite Faults, NV
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In article <66000029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> krauskpf@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu 
(Tim Krauskopf) responds to a concern about spying on password
exchanges over the ethernet.  Tim asks:

 > Kerberos anyone?

Tim, is this a reference to Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog
of classical mythology?

In any event, it seems to me that no security system is foolproof.
There always has to be a way to get under the hood.

I suspect the next generation of computer viruses will attack
the immune system.  One such species will cause the immune system
to freeze and lock everyone out.  Another will disable the immune
system and let everyone in.  My guess is that the first of these
will appear within a year;  the second will emerge shortly after
science publishes a theory of operation on the human immunideficiency
virus.

--Barry Kort