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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot (passwd protection)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.051234.12894@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 05:12:34 GMT
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- Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
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- In article <Btp8rL.yM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
- >mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >
- >>In article <BtnA98.30@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
- >>Buy a BIOS that has a password option, or buy a security card. Another
- >>option is to encrypt your disk, but I don't think that is a good substitute
- >>for a hardware password, as they can still erase your data too easily.
- >
- >I've seen some hardware cards. But alot have a "driver" that needs to be run.
- >Lot of good that does us os/2 people.
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- Doesn't USA Flex sell one? JDR Microdevices? Do these need software?
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- >And as for the bios, the cold boot only protection isn't nice either.
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- Works on all reboots with my AMI BIOS!
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