Re: privacy on Unix-servers

From: David Magda (dmagda+usenet@ee.ryerson.ca)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: David Magda <dmagda+usenet@ee.ryerson.ca>
Date: 22 Jan 2003 18:05:08 -0500

phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu writes:

> Administrators can always read your data , this is nothing unique
> of unix it's merely a fact of "powerful users".
[..]

Not (AFAIK) under Plan 9. There is no such thing as the
"super-user". 

-- 
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well 
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

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