1995-11-21 - Re: Virus attacks on PGP

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From: John Lull <lull@acm.org>
To: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
Message Hash: f54ebba68bdc537c39efa15f880745c55af706e0846229cdbc707c7c98210e75
Message ID: <199511211743.JAA06639@ix8.ix.netcom.com>
Reply To: <95Nov21.083447edt.10061@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1995-11-21 18:17:43 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 02:17:43 +0800

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From: John Lull <lull@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 02:17:43 +0800
To: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Virus attacks on PGP
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On Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:34:46 -0500, you wrote:

> Seeing as PGP is quite small the simplest and cheapest read-only device
> would be a write-protected floppy disk.
> 
> Could a virus write to a write-protected disk?  I'm not sure if the
> protection is done in the BIOS or the drive hardware.

In the drive hardware.

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• 1995-11-21 (Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:00:58 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
  • 1995-11-21 (Tue, 21 Nov 1995 21:51:32 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
    • 1995-11-21 (Wed, 22 Nov 1995 02:17:43 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - John Lull <lull@acm.org>
      • 1995-11-21 (Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:07:56 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - Ian Whalley <ian@virusbtn.com>