Looking through other users' (unprotected) files
David Katinsky
katinsky at topaz.RUTGERS.EDU
Thu Oct 23 06:25:32 AEST 1986
<At our place, there is a Committee on Privacy that worries about
<such things. Their major concern was that we could not teach our
<four or five thousand novices about chmod BEFORE they had
<casually created private files which others would then browse --
<in other words: were users giving informed consent or just using
<a defualt of "friendly" which novices (the reasonable man?) would
<not expect?
What about a default umask????
--
"Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it......"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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