Firewalls: RE: NT Security

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(October 1996)

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Subject:	RE: NT Security
From:	muzo <muzok @ pacbell . net>
Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:33:29 -0700
To:	"'Firewalls'" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>, "'Keith McCammon'" <keithm @ asymetrix . com>

> You can directly edit NTFS disk sectors from WITHIN NT!

not on a properly secured system with the correct user rights. To be able 
to read sector off of a partition you need certain rights which your 
regular users shouldn't have.

> You can also boot to DOS
> and using the NTFS4DOS driver read any file regardless of encryption.

Is there any PC OS which can prevent you from booting to DOS and doing the 
same ?

muzo

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