umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) (02/13/91)
What is the best security measures a person can take to protect their DATA on the IBM AT from unauthorized access? Wether it be PD or commercial? Thanks, Jason
ragnarok@buhub.bradley.edu (Matthew Lathrum) (02/13/91)
In <1991Feb12.173456.534@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) writes: > What is the best security measures a person can take to protect >their DATA on the IBM AT from unauthorized access? Wether it be PD or >commercial? There are commercial programs out that will let you encrypt your data or even encrypt your directory so peole can't get in without the password. Also, you can pkzip it and use the encrypter with that..... -- INTERNET: ragnarok@buhub.bradley.edu OR ragnarok@bucs1.bradley.edu OR aamlath@heartland.bradley.edu OR af547@cleveland.freenet.edu "GEE, WHAT A CHOICE!"
jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison) (02/14/91)
In article <1991Feb12.173456.534@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) writes: > What is the best security measures a person can take to protect >their DATA on the IBM AT from unauthorized access? Wether it be PD or >commercial? Not to be facetious, but consider saving the data on floppy disk, remove the floppy and lock it up. Physical security is usually best. Keep in mind that if you copy the data to a hard disk to work on it, just deleting the file after copying back to a floppy doesn't necessarily prevent someone from recovering the data. There are utility programs (Norton's, for example) that overwrite the contents of a file to make sure it can't be recovered. (In a goverment classified computing facility, I remember being required to overwrite disks 3 times before it was considered safe.) -- "How am I typing? Call 1-303-279-1300" Jack C. Morrison Ampex Video Systems 581 Conference Place, Golden CO 80401