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From: vomlehn@halley.UUCP (David M VomLehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WANTED: Software copy lock for Mac
Message-ID: <479@halley.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 22:24:09 GMT
References: <616@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <127200065@inmet>
Reply-To: vomlehn@halley.UUCP (David M VomLehn)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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In article <127200065@inmet> gregh@inmet writes:
>The "Bozo" bit has not worked since at least System 4.1. Apparently
>even Apple did not put much faith in its effectiveness.

Actually, this is not true.  I am running system 6.0.2 and have recently
used the "Bozo" bit to good effect.  It is ample to keep naive users from
making off with your files.  Since most of the people reading news are not
naive users, we get a distorted idea of just how few users actually know about
this sort of thing.