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Re: After Y2K, critical infrastructure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Thu Dec 23 21:13:06 1999

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:03:07 -0800
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From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 08:49 PM 12/23/99 -0500, Deepak Jain wrote:
 >
 >> I'm hoping the "hackers" will party and get drunk over New Year's, and 
leave
 >> the so-called critical infrastructure alone.  If you think you filled out a
 >> lot of paperwork for Y2K, and you ain't seen anything yet.  I for one sleep
 >> much better knowing Microsoft NT is certified C2 ready :-)
 >>
 >
 >Sorry to ruin your sleep. NT is ONLY C2 certified as a standalone
 >workstation. I.e. NO NETWORKING DRIVERS ENABLED.

I thought you had to remove the NIC, the floppy, and a few other things, 
not just software.  C2 *Orange* Book, not Red Book.

 >AiNET

TTFN,
patrick

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