Article in recent 2600 mag

[D. Taylor]

cfs

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Mike Sheldon wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:54:39 -0700
> From: Mike Sheldon <msheldon@desertraven.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Article in recent 2600 mag
> 
> If you believe you have a security risk involving physical access, then you
> need to encrypt your files. There are even products that will create virtual
> drives that are encrypted blocks on the hard disk (PGP Disk). Unfortunately,
> I'm not aware of any for Linux. Anyone here know of one?
> 
> Michael J. Sheldon
> Internet Applications Developer
> Phone: 480.699.1084
> http://www.desertraven.com/
> PGP Key Available on Request
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lucas
> Vogel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 06:56
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Article in recent 2600 mag
> 
> 
> >
> > It was mentioned in several 2600 articles in the current issue.  The
> reason I
> > brought it up was to point out that it existed.  In the case of the ASULUG
> (to
> > which I also posted this) someone said that they wished they had known
> about
> > this a few weeks(?) ago when helping a friend recover his NT system.  I
> didn't
> > bring this up as being an exploit of the fs.
> 
> Sorry, must've misunderstood. I thought you said it was a fs exploit.
> I kind of find it scary that I can 'break into' all of my files on an NT
> system with a DOS bootup floppy. At least you can on Dos paritions...
> but that really bugs me. Why bother with security at all when all you
> need to have is a Win95 floppy disk?
> 
> --
> Lucas Vogel
> lucas7@home.com
> ICQ: 44697169
> 
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