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Subject: [Noise, NT bashing] :) Re: NT Security
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat @ mcfeely . bsfs . org>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:12:37 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Bruce M." <bkmarsh @ feist . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . BSI . 3 . 91 . 960930133113 . 27892A-100000 @ wichita . fn . net>


On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Bruce M. wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Joseph S. D. Yao wrote:
> 
> > Much has been made of NT's "C2" certification.  I've heard that it was
> > certified without the standard NT file system; and with that file
> > system, it can't be certified.  Beware.
> 
>     It will only comply with C2 standards if you are using the NTFS file 
> system (not FAT or HPFS) and, of course, as a stand-alone machine after
> service pack X (7?) is applied with some other holes closed.
>
 
Stand-alone machines make excellent firewalls - kinda like Marcus' 
wirecutters, but more costly and capable of running cool screen blankers 
too ...


;)


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