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Re: IBM password

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From: Massimo Cotrozzi
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:58
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graef@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Graef) writes:

>In article <1992Sep29.095334.20666@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Massimo Cotrozzi) writes:

>> There's no way to protect a PC from use by unauthorized users ..

>I do not agree! Only if you let have the potentially unauthorized users
>access to the hardware. If they dont have access to the hardware,
>they can't break in.
>For example you connect monitor, keyboard, mouse, tablet and 
>diskette drive through a small hole in the wall to the workstation in
>another (locked!!!) room. Then it depends only on the software.

you must convince people who care about it ( I DON'T ) that making 
a hole in the wall is improving the security of your 2000$ PC :-)
I'm joking of course ..

seriously , I believe that the best secure computer is the one locked
in an empty room with all its plugs left alone and powered off :)

	Massimo
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From: cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Massimo Cotrozzi)
Subject: Re: IBM password
References: <BvAv1r.M8C@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <bill.717738277@chaos.cs.umn.edu> <1992Sep29.095334.20666@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> <1992Sep29.165637.33781@news.th-darmstadt.de>
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:58:16 GMT
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