Re: ensuring total security

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Date: 05/17/02 

Date: 17 May 2002 01:23:25 GMT

In article <2826fa44.0205130719.470f9af6@posting.google.com>,
        dcothen@hotmail.com (cothen) writes:
>Thanks for all the replies.
>As this is just personal and not spy stuff, I think diskettes and use
>of passwords will suit me. BTW I'm using Office 2000 on W98.

MS has a lot of "features" that have negative implications for
security. "Fast Find" and other tools can create copies of your
unencrypted document's text to allow quick searches. This stuff
can persist for quite a while. The swap file, auto-backups,
web-cache, and "fast" saves can also trip you up with regards to
security. I haven't even mentioned "undelete".

Some of these things are also issues on open-source systems,
but at least there you can maintain some measure of control
and actually find out for certain what goes on behind the
scenes. 

-- 
     Peter F Curran
     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"And I am not a newbie I have been around probly longer then
 you have. So talk a long walk off a short pier." - Jamie 2/17/02
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