Correct!
Script started on Mon Nov 2 15:59:59 1998
$ ls /tmp
the_nuclear_device_is_being_shipped_by_federal_express_waybill_no_12345
$ exit
exit
Script done on Mon Nov 2 16:00:11 1998
Complete security does not exist on a system designed for interactive use.
If you make a program, that does only what you define, and substitute it
for `init`, then you have some degree of security as long as no failure
mode exists that can perform unintended I/O. This may not be possible.
PROM-based software is probably most secure. However, if it interracts
with humans over a communications channel, therein lies the problem.
Of course you can get 'close'. But is 'close' close enough? No answers
are necessary.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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