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Re: New quotes for Thu Dec 20

jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Dec 20 09:35:49 1990

>Afs is enough to blow one's mind.
>To think... someone here at Snortfad can peruse the files of any
>person at MIT on afs.  And afs is just getting bigger and bigger...
>
>Permisssions permitting, of course.

Well, NFS was like this too.  It's just that for NFS, you had to know
the fileserver name before you could try to access the files.

I've accessed quite a few home directories all over the country via
NFS.  And, by the way, not all of the other NFS sites are as secure as
Project Athena as (I'll leave the interpretation of that to you :-).

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