Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:46:26 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Econet

I don't agree.  If you go to the Archimedes server running L4
Econet, you can examine the contents of the Econet area of
the disc as it is simply stored as files on the hard disc in a separate
directory.  You can look into that directory in the same way that you
could look into any other directory on the hard disc drive.

If you go to the BBC micro server running L3 Econet, you can't
look into any of the Econet partition as it is beyond the end of the
hard or floppy disc attached to the machine.  You can't go into the
disc and look at what Econet users have stored as the data is
not visible from the server machine.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent: 15 Aug 2005 01:38:23 +0100
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Re: Econet

"BeebMaster" <BeebMaster@...> wrote:
> I don't like Level 4 personally, it seems to me that there is no security
> on it.  In other words it stores all the Econet data in ADFS format in
> a directory on your hard disc so anybody could go in and have a look.
 
It's secure if you access it across the network. Like any server
that you can access from the "console", the console owns
everything, and so, of course, there is no security there. You
secure it by locking it in a cupboard.
 
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