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Article #646Re: IBM password
From: Massimo Cotrozzi
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:58
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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! /|/| /| \ / ! Massimo Cotrozzi Computer Science Dept. Milan Italy ! ! / | /-| \ ! cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it ! !/ |/ | / \ ! massimo@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it !
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!batcomputer!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!cotrozzi 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 Message-ID: <1992Sep30.165816.5189@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> Lines: 21