On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Sung Nae Cho wrote:
> Windows NT is very secure in that matter. Simply reinstalling Windows
> NT will not let you read someone else's file. Also, it won't let you
> reinstall Windows NT without verifying that you're the right
> administrator! During the reinstall, it asks for your root passwd.
> If the passwd doesn't match, it won't let you reinstall unless you're
> willing to reinstall from scratch (reformat or erase everything before
> going on to installation procedure). Now I think that's being secure
> all the way. Is there anyway I can do that with FreeBSD? For
> example, attaching signature to all my files etc.
There are any number of tools, both commercial and freely available, that
can read NTFS filesystems without paying attention to the permissions on
the drive.
The difference here is this: Unix does not pretend to be secure when it
isn't.
If you want file security against folks with access to the hardware, you
need strong crypto. This is true on literally any operating system.
--
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