Re: Wanted: security prog. for public Mac

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From: Scott Hudziak
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:00

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Many of the teachers at our school use a shareware/freeware? app that you
hookup with set startup (on system 6.0.x) and you keep it on your desktop
and dblclick on it when you are goign to leave you mac. When it boots up
(on startup, or when you dblclick it) it asks for a password to return to
the finder. This would work for -inexperienced- users. But Was able to
break in by holding command-period on startup and thus aborting the
set-startup thing. I dunno if this is sufficient for you. I'll have to go
find the name. Also, it is even easier to crack on system seven (if you
were to switch) because it -is- and application, and thus can be forced to
quit with the "command-option-escape" key combo. 
 
scott hudziak

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Subject: Re: Wanted: security prog. for public Mac
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