Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!novavax!utx1!ashley From: ashley@utx1.UUCP (Ashley Oliver) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Trojan Horse a Myth? Summary: Almost entirely irrelvent Message-ID: <1931@utx1.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 19:47:11 GMT References: <459@gtx.com> <2393@killer.UUCP> <337@spectrix.UUCP> Organization: Racal-Milgo, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. Lines: 18 In article <337@spectrix.UUCP>, clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: > > A minor quibble - have you ever used PC/MSDOS? It's very simple to > break security on these machines because there ain't none. Many BBS's Another minor quibble. It depends what you mean by 'break security' and I suspect Chris Lewis and I are thinking of different aspects, but I'd claim MS-DOS is a lot more secure than UNIX on the simple grounds that any single user/single tasking OS is inherently several orders of magnitude more secure than any multi user/multi tasking OS. Given that in both cases the user in question gives a dingo's kidneys about security ..... -- {allegra|codas}!novavax!utx1!ashley Ashley P Oliver (305) 476 6880 @ Racal-Milgo, Fort Lauderdale, Florida