Re: Macintosh Security

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From: Michael G. Reed
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 13:27

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Never, and I mean never, trust empower...It is trivial to break for anyone with
a brain (that has been proven time and again).  Try something like FWB's SCSI
drivers...at least they do DES encryption, even if it's without chaining.

-Michael

In article <1992Oct29.093237.12804@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
|> 
|> I have found Empower to very good. You can disable boot from
|> floppy. If you attached the protected disc to another machine,
|> the information is still inaccessable. You can setup a list
|> of users that can login. 
|> 
|> 
|> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
|> |                                                             |
|> | Mark Evans                     e-mail: mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk |
|> |                                uucp:   uknet!itri!mre1      |
|> | ITRI, Univeristy of Brighton,  Tel:    +44 273 642915       |
|> | Lewes Road, Brighton,          Fax:    +44 273 606653       |
|> | E. Sussex, BN2 4AT, UK.                                     |
|> |                                                             |
|> +-------------------------------------------------------------+

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Michael G. Reed                                         (reed@TC.Cornell.EDU)
Cornell National Supercomputing Facility                       (607)/254-8806
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        Why be normal, it's boring; and boring people should be shot.

Note:  These are not the views of my employer (and probably not mine either).

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