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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Is there a back door ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.150342.1072@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:03:42 PST
- References: <1992Nov30.110339.2773@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> <1fd8icINNcr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec1.023631.23052@netcom.com> <1992Dec08.004159.1944@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1992Dec08.004159.1944@microsoft.com>, robertre@microsoft.com (Robert Reichel ms2) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec1.023631.23052@netcom.com> erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith) writes:
- >>DOS has full access to everything.
- >> [ie you could boot DOS and run a program under it to modify the authorization
- >> file on the NT disk]
- >
- > NT users who do not use NTFS sacrifice a lot of security for reasons
- > like this.
- >
- > Dos cannot mount NTFS volumes.
-
- So shat? A program running under DOS can talk to an NTFS volume simply by
- putting knowledge of NTFS into the DOS program itself.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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