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Re: ideal secure personal computer system

To: [email protected] (Bill Frantz)
Subject: Re: ideal secure personal computer system
From: [email protected] (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:24:03 -0600 (CST)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Bill Frantz" at Nov 15, 96 03:17:56 pm
Organization: Bool Sheet Software
Reply-To: [email protected] (Igor Chudov)
Sender: [email protected]

Bill Frantz wrote:
> Protection against strangers walking up to your machine and using it is
> nice, and easy to do.  Protection against viruses which install Trojan
> horses in your system would also be nice, but is very hard to do in systems
> where programs run with all the privileges of their users.  Examples
> include (in alpha order): DOS, MacOS, Unix, and Windows (including NT).

I wonder what are the operating systems where programs may be run with
_less_ privileges than the user who starts them? Is VMS one of such 
systems?

thanks

	- Igor.

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