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From: meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: On Location is BAD NEWS!
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Date: 19 Feb 90 21:37:32 GMT
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In article <18045@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> ric@cs.arizona.edu (Ric Anderson) writes:
>In article <17721.635313273@ics.uci.edu>, truesdel@ICS.UCI.EDU (Scott Truesdell) writes:
>> 
>> Mitch Kapor's new venture sounded like a neat hack.
>> Then I read something in MacWorld, March, 1990, MacWorld News, page
>> 119, right under Mitch's picture that chilled my blood. I quote:
>> 
>> 	"AppleShare volumes also present a curious problem:
>> 	[On Location] indexes don't respect AppleShare's
>> 	security features, so you can't prevent users from
>> 	finding text in folders they are not authorized to
>> 	read. On Technology plans a fix for a later version."
...
>This would imply that anyone writing an application for a
>Mac can read AppleShare protected files.  That's not a warm
>comforting thought, ESPECIALLY if there are students on one's
>AppleShare file server.

Well thank you for that strong sense of trust.  I did things like you
are concerned about my freshman year of high school. I'd like to think
that most of us on the net (particularly students) have a little more
respect for privacy than you give us credit for.  If I were to draw an
equally bad hasty generalization based on your remarks, I sure hope
there aren't any faculty or administrators on my AppleShare file
server.

Paul Eric Menchen
meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu