Re: Why HPFS SHOULD be secret.

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From: William Unruh
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:39

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etb2s@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Erik Timothy Brandsberg) writes:

>...
>I realized that IBM should NEVER release this information, and if they
>...  If someone decides to make a driver
>to access the HPFS from DOS or Linux...  Then these security measures
>can very easily be stripped off and anything on the disk can be read
>by anybody.  
...

Security by obscurity? Anyone able to install a device driver should be
able to read everything (eg, root on a Unix system). If you don't ahve
permission to read everything you should not be ablke to install a new
device driver either. If IBM allows that then they have made a big
mistake. If someone can boot bare DOS on your system then your system is
in trouble anyway. A secure system should either not allow DOS to be
booted, or should have a password for bootup. Yes, getting a secure
OS2/WindowsNT/Unix on a 386 will be tough without protection from
booting into DOS. But trying to keep the details of HPFS hidden isn't a way
to go.

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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
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