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From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: Security question
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
References: <1993Dec4.065700.11472@news.csuohio.edu> <CGD.93Dec3232517@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <2duteuEig7@uni-erlangen.de>
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 02:09:39 GMT
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In article <2duteuEig7@uni-erlangen.de> eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts) writes:
=>cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
=>>you have to do the following to make a PC secure:
=>> (2) have the power supply set up so that it's always on.
=>> (i.e. remove the switch)
=>
=>(8) lock SCSI-bus
=>
=>to (2): there are plugs, fuses, ..., also
That's what the internal UPS is for.
=>to (8): it's only neccessary if your kernel allows booting from an
=>(external) SCSI-device.
=>
=>But, of course, there is (x), the unknown ...
Which, of course, we can't do anything about until we know
something about it.
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts
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