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Igor David Schneider (igords@odyssee.net) wrote:
: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

: >igords@odyssee.net (Igor David Schneider) wrote:
: >>
: >>I really don't understand this thread at all. If you don't trust the
: >>setup wizard just turn off your modem during setup, or after the modem
: >>is setup. 
: >>
: >>

: >Are you saying this is all it takes to be safe?  I think the only way you can
: >be even reasonably safe with Microsoft OS is to never, Never, NEVER use it on
: >any public network.

: You don't leave the house much right? After all you can never, Never,
: NEVER really be safe from anything is the big bad world. Don't use a
: bank card either 'cause you can never, Never, NEVER know that the bank
: machine is not scanning your card for finger prints.



It's a matter of security-levels. If *I* were ever to buy a WIndows 95 
machine, would I care if MS knew something about my HD configuration? I 
might resent it, but I really wouldn't care.


At the other extreme is the military's level of security. One must reboot 
AFB "mainframes" (minis) from a cold start with an OS that disables all 
contact with the outside world. And that's just for NATO-Secret level stuff.


For the highest level of security, one must use a computer that is shielded 
from any conceivable electronic surveillance, has NO contact with the 
outside world, and conceivably either runs off of batteries or shielded 
and secure generators, preferably adjacent to, and guarded by, the same 
folks that guard the computer.

Security concerns about MS Network registration lie somewhere between those 
extremes. 
It's up to the security managers of each office to determine where their 
office lies. For any kind of military installation, I'd say that MS 
Network is a no-go. For any kind of industrial system where industrial 
secrets might pass through, I'd suspect the same answer.

For the outer secretary's office, I doubt that it matters, unless she is 
networked with everyone else.

You see, it's not MS that security folk have to worry about, but folks 
writing virii and trojan horses and so on that manage to take advantage 
of MS Network.

I can conceive of a virus that would lie dormant until WIndows 95 was 
installed, would infect MS Network and proceed to do all sorts of nasty 
things, security-wise.

The home user wouldn't need to worry about such things, but for military 
and sensative industrial installations?

Ouch.

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