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In a message dated 10-14-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

GM Tom,

HG>If you put a password on your HD's (in the BIOS) nobody will ever get
HG>access to the contents in them .........

TW> that is great if soemoen steals your machine. BUT if you are logged
TW> in online and some hacker breaks into your machine ha can see all of
TW> the hard drive that you can.

That's why it's so important to have all kinds of protections on your
incoming lines, especially when you run Windows.

By design OS/2 is much more secure and used by a minority so hackers are
not so interested.

CU L8ER,

Holger

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