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- From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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- In article <802@longway.TIC.COM> pkr@sgi.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- [had a B1 UNIX box]
- > But they forgot to tell us what the passwords were. Although we had
- > physical possesion of the machine, in a company that also make computers,
- > it would have taken us a while to "boot" the system (i.e., insecurely).
-
- And if you needed to use the machine, you would have been out of luck.
-
- For some people that level of security has a negative value. It's that
- simple. It's not like we're saying "we want all UNIX systems to be
- insecure", we're saying "we don't want all UNIX systems to come with
- that level of security". Can't you see the difference?
- --
- Peter da Silva. `-_-'
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- <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 120
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