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- From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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- In article <802@longway.TIC.COM> std-unix@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >As an example, we purchased an AT&T 630 (386 PC type machine) to run
- >AT&T SV/MLS (B1 UNIX). We had AT&T put the software on, and they set,
- >as is required the passwords.
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- >Whereas the same hardware with normal UNIX would have very vulnerable.
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- Do you honestly believe that, short of encrypting the data on the disk,
- sufficient security is going to keep your data "safe" if your machine is
- (physicially) compromised?
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- Uh-huh.
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- Sean Eric Fagan | "Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room,
- seanf@sco.COM | and we did it."
- uunet!sco!seanf | -- Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 129
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