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Re: The joy of simplicity?

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: The joy of simplicity?
Date 2015-07-20 06:20 +1000
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"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051B39D5D75EA9@aca2e736.ipt.aol.com...
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Morten Reistad <first@last.navn> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote
>>>>> Peter Flass wrote
>>>>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Andrew Swallow wrote
>>>>>>>> jmfbahciv wrote
>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>>>>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>> Andrew Swallow wrote
>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> This will help but unfortunately the database you
>>>>>>>>>>>> are keeping secret ends up inside the sandbox.
>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Implement a file daemon like we did on TOPS-10.
>>
>>>>>>>>>> Doesn't do a damned thing about the problem he is talking about.
>>
>>>>>>>>> Of course it can.  The file daemone can do anything one wants
>>>>>>>>> it to. In order to circumvent the security, a cracker has to patch
>>>>>>>>> the monitor to redirect the IPCF messages _and_ its contents.
>>
>>>>>>>> Can the virus tell the daemone to get the next database record?
>>>>>>>> If so repeat until the entire database has been extracted.
>>
>>>>>>> Only if the file daemon is designed to allow such access without
>>>>>>> security.
>>
>>>>>>> Using a file daemon to access otherwise protected files from a user,
>>>>>>> including an app, allows access without the user/app having to have
>>>>>>> the system privileges one would need if a daemon wasn't available.
>>
>>>>>>> The sample JMF wrote, was designed to extend access to files.
>>>>>>> There isn't anything preventing a daemon from accessing the
>>>>>>> contents of files. The neat thing was that you could protect a
>>>>>>> file from [1,2] accessing it.  [1,2] was the equivalent user to
>>>>>>> Unix' sudo (I think that's what it's called.)
>>
>>>>>> A daemon has nothing to do with this. The file system has to run
>>>>>> at a higher privilege level (which most do) and have no bugs or
>>>>>> security holes (which doesn't seem to be true).  The problem seems
>>>>>> to be that unauthorized code takes advantage of holes in the system
>>>>>> get an elevated privilege level and access things it shouldn't.
>>
>>>>> If you have a file daemon, you can protect all files
>>>>> and directories from any access at all times.
>>
>>>> There you go, utterly mangling the terminology just like you always do.
>>
>>> No, she has just given some references to
>>> som DEC systems that have fallen into disuse.
>>
>> She isn't doing that in this case with her claim that 'you can
>> protect all files and directories from any access at all times'

> I did this every day at work.

You never protected' all files and directories from any access at all times'

> Even the god ppn [1,2] couldn't access my files if I didn't want them to.

That is nothing even remotely like 'all files
and directories from any access at all times'

> The ones I did allow to access left a log in my directory.

Not true of other access to other files. And that approach
requires someone or something to check those logs anyway. 

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                Re: The joy of simplicity? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-10 13:20 -0500
                Re: The joy of simplicity? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 18:59 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-10 21:08 +0100
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                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-12 12:53 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 05:40 +1000
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                Re: The joy of simplicity? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-15 12:31 +0000
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                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 09:01 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-19 13:25 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 06:20 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-20 13:29 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-20 15:26 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-21 12:53 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 05:52 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 09:49 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-19 13:25 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? Morten Reistad <first@last.navn> - 2015-07-19 18:15 +0200
                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-20 13:29 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 05:49 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 06:38 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-07-20 13:29 +0000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 05:55 +1000
                Re: The joy of simplicity? "Hank" <hfd543@nospam.com> - 2015-07-12 06:00 +1000
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