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- From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
- Subject: Re: Declassification of disks and DEC
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.112730.23006@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Summary: Complaint forwarded to Digital security marketing
- Keywords: HSC, DIS, disk reformatting
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organisation: Employed by (*NOT* speaker for) DEC, Boxborough, MA, U.S.A.
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:21:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.174506.25517@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>, m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (Barone) writes...
- >
- [description of the misbehaviour of the "Enhanced HSC Format Utility",
- part number QA-926AB-H7, deleted]
- >
- >Talks with the SDI Controller Software Supervisor indicate that this
- >is a feature and the formatter does conform with the 1989 Industrial
- >Security Manual. Unfortunately, this manual has been superseded by
- >the Government Declassification Specification of 1990.
- >
- >It seems to me that to change the formatter to write the specified
- >pattern rather than zeros should be straightforward and easy but I
- >had the impression that nothing would be done.
-
- I have forwarded this complaint to someone I know in Digital security
- marketing. Hopefully, he will be able to push the right buttons to get
- this issue re-opened. FWIW, my personal opinion is the same as yours -
- not only is it not doing the Right Thing, but it's not even functioning as
- documented (modulo your description of the documentation, with which I
- have no argument).
-
- >Joe Barone
- >m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com
-
- #ken :-)} Jeratol the Chaotic
-
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