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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!taco!dspascha
  3. From: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
  4. Subject: Re: Password protection
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep1.204126.26949@ncsu.edu>
  6. Originator: dspascha@c00089-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
  7. Lines: 36
  8. Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
  9. Reply-To: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
  10. Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
  11. References: <5684@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM$> <420@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Btv9B3.2FA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Sep1.133613.5047@walter.cray.com>
  12. Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:41:26 GMT
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  14.  
  15. In article <1992Sep1.133613.5047@walter.cray.com>, huot@cray.com (Tom Huot) writes:
  16. |> Path: taco!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!sdcrsi!equalizer!timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!huot
  17. |> From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
  18. |> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
  19. |> Subject: Re: Password protection
  20. |> Summary: Try the Keylock
  21. |> Message-ID: <1992Sep1.133613.5047@walter.cray.com>
  22. |> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 14:36:12 GMT+5:00
  23. |> References: <5684@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM$> <420@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Btv9B3.2FA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
  24. |> Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
  25. |> Lines: 14
  26. |> 
  27. |> [Line of complaints about password protection not secure enough deleted]
  28. |> 
  29. |> I am surprised no one has yet to mention this one. Use the Keylock to
  30. |> lock the computer. Unless someone wants to go to the trouble of 
  31. |> taking the system apart and rewiring it, I don't think you will
  32. |> have any trouble with someone messing with your data.
  33. |> Please ... no flames about the computers that are not equipped
  34. |> with a lock.
  35. |> 
  36. |> -- 
  37. |> _____________________________________________________________________________
  38. |> Tom Huot                           
  39. |> huot@cray.com 
  40. |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  41. |> 
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  43.  
  44. Hi.  The problem with keylocks is that some computer manufacturers don't go to
  45. the trouble to make each key unique!!!  You got one key, you can open them
  46. all!
  47.  
  48. Tschuess,
  49. David Paschal
  50.