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Subject: RE: NT Security
From: Matthew Thompson <mthomps1 @ kiwitech . co . nz>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:37:41 +1200
To: "'Firewalls'" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>, "'Keith McCammon'" <keithm @ asymetrix . com>


>What??? NTFS is not encrypted! NTFS is not a secure file system! You can 
>directly edit NTFS disk sectors from WITHIN NT! You can also boot to DOS 
>and using the NTFS4DOS driver read any file regardless of encryption. You 
>can also reinstall NT and Take Ownership of entire volumes! And if you
>physically transfer the hard disk to another NT box you can also take
>ownership, negating all file security!

The same attacks apply to Unix and Netware. What do you recommend people do 
to extend/replace these 3 operating systems to solve this problem?







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