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Re: MacPassword

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From: John Nevius
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 22:11
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A shareware password protection utility was recently posted to
comp.binaries.mac, after installing it successfully and playing with it
some, I'm left a little puzzled about protecting files on my Mac.

My investigations showed me that all someone has to have to defeat this
"protection" program is a copy of DiskTop (substitute your favorite Finder 
enhancement program here), it is then quite trivial to copy a "protected" file
onto floppies, TOPS networks, external HD's, etc, etc..

Is this program representative of the state-of-the-state, am I missing something
here?  How does this utility qualify as a "protection" program?

Thanks,

John Nevius
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From: nevius@amc.UUCP (John Nevius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re:  MacPassword
Message-ID: <919@amc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 22:11:50 GMT
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Organization: Applied Microsystems Corp.; Redmond, WA
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