Standards Update, IEEE 1003.6: Security

[Sean Fagan]

From:  seanf at sco.COM (Sean Fagan)

In article <802 at longway.TIC.COM> std-unix at uunet.uu.net writes:
>As an example, we purchased an AT&T 630 (386 PC type machine) to run
>AT&T SV/MLS (B1 UNIX). We had AT&T put the software on, and they set,
>as is required the passwords.
>
>Whereas the same hardware with normal UNIX would have very vulnerable.

Do you honestly believe that, short of encrypting the data on the disk, 
sufficient security is going to keep your data "safe" if your machine is
(physicially) compromised?

Uh-huh.
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