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In <1992Nov23.194539.20288@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> etb2s@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Erik Timothy Brandsberg) writes:

>After seeing a few of the posts requesting information about the HPFS,
>I realized that IBM should NEVER release this information, and if they
>have, it was a big mistake.  The problem is security--IBM is working
>to make OS/2 a much more secured system, and the server variations of
>the HPFS have built in security.  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.  Therefore, I encourage you DON'T attempt to write such a
>tool, as it might be used for the wrong reasons.

Piffle, I say, piffle!  Unix is designed for file-system security (grep
-v NFS), yet no one objects to the fact that the layout of the file
system is public knowledge.  If you want security, you don't give people
direct access to the machine--you don't let them directly reboot with
another OS which might be able to peep into the partitions where your
secure data is stored.  You *certainly* shouldn't try to repress what
could be extremely useful information for people trying to recover data
off of crashed drives!

Hell, it's my computer, I'll hack it if I want to, thank you very much!

Gee, while we're at it--consider that C compilers can be useful to
crackers--so let's ban all C compilers!  Make everybody program in REXX
or shell scripts only, so that we won't have any potential holes in our
security.

1/2:-)
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