| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Weird Campaigns |
| Date: | Thu, 21 May 1998 10:36:52 +0100 |
> I seem to recall a reference in VR2 to systems remaining "alert" for awhile
> after a decker has logged off. This would necessitate some sort of globalness
> of security tally. I'd suggest a compromise;
[snip]
Partly related to this, I thought about security tallies about a week ago,
and it suddenly dawned on me that it should be possible to erase or
inflate them... After all, it's just data kept on a computer somewhere, so
the decker should be able to in- or decrease the counter. However, looking
through VR 2.0 I couldn't find a system operation that allows this...
The way to go about this would, I guess, be to do a Locate File to find
the file (or memory address) containing the security tallies, and then an
Edit File operation to change them. If you do a Validate Passcode or
Invalidate Passcode before this, you should be able to erase your security
tally and appear a completely legitimate user, or do the opposite for
security deckers.
However, I think there'd be some protection built into the system, for
example that only supervisor-level users can alter security tallies. Any
thoughts?
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