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In article <579@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>, madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim Frost) writes:
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<How about:
<Go through COMMAND.COM and find the COPY command.  This is really easy to do
<with Norton Utilities.  Make it anything you want, the more bizarre the better.
<This should disable the COPY command within DOS.  Then just write your own,
<naming it anything you want.  This way, you can restrict access better.  It's
<hardly foolproof, but it oughta work to keep at least some people from
<copying things.  This is simple and quick, and should help until some real
<guru comes along with a better way.
<
<                   - Jim Frost * The Madd Hacker -

That's not so hard to thwart unless there are no floppy drives on the
machine.  Someone can walk in with a DOS disk, boot from it, and copy any
file off the hard disk.  I really don't know how you can effectively do
what you want to do, except the following:

Rewrite the file BIOS functions in DOS and rearrange the FAT so that it is
non-standard.  This is very risky and I would not think that it would be
safe, but I guess it's possible.


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