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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU, security, and RMS
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Date: 8 Jun 89 07:09:12 GMT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
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>    Sorry Barry.  This is totally invalid.   The PC's are not multi-user
>systems.   There is little need for security on a single user system.

True, PCs are single-user systems.  But, thjey're often shared among
several users - not sumultaneously, but shared none the less.  There
PCs are also connected to networks, allowing access - even simultaneous
access - by a variety of people.  There's just as much (however much
you think that might be) need for security on the single-user PC as
on any other system that isn't locked away whenever its only user isn't
present.

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