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Article #6040Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
From: Fred Fish
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 18:38
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 18:38
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In article <643@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes: >Secondly, few people have pointed out the basic security flaw in Amiga >UNIX: anybody with a fairly simple program can access *anything* in the >UNIX partition as long as this program can read sectors from the disk >under AmigaOS. This of course has nothing to do with either security flaws in Unix or the Amiga. The statement applies equally well to any machine and any operating system. If you have physical access to the machine and sufficient technical expertise to get to the data, there is NO security. Some setups may just reduce the amount of expertise needed. -Fred
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!asuvax!mcdphx!riscokid.UUCP!fnf From: fnf@riscokid.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <13874@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> Date: 23 Oct 90 18:38:26 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <15069@cbmvax.commodore.com> <643@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Sender: listen@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com Reply-To: fnf@riscokid.UUCP (Fred Fish) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. Lines: 14