Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 Aug 1996 14:32:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Michael Nelson <> | Subject | Re: Microsoft FAT 32. |
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This is not a security problem -- if you have a disk editor or one of those NTFS drive reading utilities, you're in. One of the reasons that they don't support it in DOS/Win95 is the fact that it is a complex and large file system.
-- Mike
On 3 Aug 1996, S. Lee wrote:
> In article <199607310525.WAA25450@goodguy.goodnet.com>, > Shawn Rutledge <ecloud@goodnet.com> wrote: > >Ugh. They should at least provide a choice, NTFS or this new hack, like > >NT does. > > I'd say it's more of a security problem with NTFS than their > protected-mode blah blah blah stuff. Windows need Himem.sys anyway, so a > DOS kernel with built-in XMS Manager and NTFS wouldn't be too weird. > (Apart from not able to run some real-mode only DOS games...). > > But imagine your "secure" data in your home dir under NT being readable by > everybody than boots up this DOS kernel... > > And yes, I've heard about the "physical security" arguments... But a > multi-boot NT and DOS (and Linux) machine is not rare. > > Stephen >
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