A way to monitor your files

[Peter Morreale]

In article <29348 at news.Think.COM> barmar at think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Note that he didn't actually ask for a way to prevent the SU from
>reading his file; he'd managed to discover on his own that it is
>impossible.  He asked for a way to keep track of their snooping.  The
>answer is that it is impossible in traditional Unix, and may be
>possible to a limited extent in "secure" Unix systems.
>

   Actually I've heard of one way a gov't Cray site handles the issue of
   both security and protection.

   At 8am a man enters the computer room and walks to a locked cabinet.
   After fumbling with his keys, he unlocks the door, *rolls* out his
   DD-49 (disk drive) and "plugs" it in.  (kinda like LA session
   players... "Where do ah plug in, mahnnn?")  At 5pm the reverse
   occurs.

   I suspect he is not trying to crack the Coca-Cola formula.  :-)

   Maybe that's what we need...  "pluginable" disk drives. (Hard-floppy
   disks?... Haopply disks?...)   How 'bout wizards, time to get to
   work?

-PWM
"Just another (ab)user in the wonderful world of Un*x"
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Peter W. Morreale                   
Nat'l Center for Atmos. Research, Scientific Computing Division       
morreale at ncar.ucar.edu  (303) 497-1293