On Tue, Feb 12, 2008, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > ideally you want your data security right down to the individual syscall 
> > level.
> > Various products like what Cisco offer let you specify what access to what
> > data various applications have, but i don't know how useful it is protecting
> > people from copy/pasting data around. I know at least the "secure" versions
> > of IRIX and Digital UNIX were doing useful things like tagging individual 
> > IPC
> > data with security ACLs, preventing you from copy/pasting between high->low
> > security contexts. That was fun to work inside. :)
> 
> But the nice security vendor man installed a box on our network and gave 
> me a certificate that promised we were secure!

:)



Adrian

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