Re: Hide Desktop
Re: Hide Desktop
- Subject: Re: Hide Desktop
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:47:23 -0800
nigh on 2001-11-30 1:21 PM, Sander Tekelenburg at email@hidden wrote:
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At 03:58 -0800 UTC, on 30-11-2001, Chris Page wrote:
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> If you're really concerned with security, you're probably better off using
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> Multiple Users.
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I've never seen Apple present Multiple Users as a security tool. And rightly
I'm just saying that it's better than just hiding the desktop. You can only
circumvent it if you boot off of a separate copy of system software. So if
you only have one copy installed, and don't allow external storage devices
to be attached, it's about as secure as you need if the goal is just to
prevent casual mucking about. If you need something more secure than that,
hiding the desktop isn't even a meaningful strategy.
--
Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.
Software development is the art of cajoling megabytes of random noise into
doing something reasonably useful, or at least not life-threatening.