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From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Can writing on a disk be prevented completed?
Message-ID: <816@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 22 Feb 89 07:20:46 GMT
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> In <1986@daimi.dk>, hrc@himalia.dk (Henrik Raeder Clausen) writes:
>  >Our public libraries in Denmark are about to buy complete Fish disk
>  >libraries for public lending, but they are quite worried about possible
>  >sabotage in the form of viruses, Greetings and the like on their disks.
> All other schemes are doomed to failure, and if it becomes known that either of
> the above methods are in operation, there will undoubtedly be attempts at
> sabotaging those as well.
How about:
1.copy your master to the loanerdisk
2.give disk to user
3.on return (first bulkerase if you want to be very safe) reformat loanerdisk
4.goto 1
If you keep your masterdisks in a safe place there's no way to beat this
scheme. By the way I'm afraid some Fishdisk are distributed with errors
on them. I'm sure about 83, which I bought about 20 times from
different vendors internationally and always get read error in directory
tex. Giving up on this one.
fmr@cwi.nl
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