WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (01/18/90)
>With 3.5" disks, a small hole can be covered by a moving tab, to >indicate to the disk drive whether the disk is locked or not. Open is >locked, closed is writable. If vendors disseminate applications on >write-locked 3.5" media, all a vandal needs to do is cover the hole >with a small piece of electrical tape. Without intending to minimize the threat of vandals, the damage that they do is vanishingly small when compared to errors by the well-intentioned. The danger to which this mechanism was addressed was the accidental and unwitting contamination of a distribution diskette. It was not intended to protect against the less likely vandalism. William Hugh Murray, Fellow, Information System Security, Ernst & Young 2000 National City Center Cleveland, Ohio 44114 21 Locust Avenue, Suite 2D, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840