Chapter 11. Security
Back in the old DOS and Windows 3.1 days, the way security was approached was actually pretty funny. The extent of it was that you could set a flag on a file indicating that it was read-only or that it was hidden, although there was nothing to prevent a user from using the attrib.exe command to change those settings. Because most users did not understand such flags, it was a reasonable way to secure data. This is still true with Win 95/98/ME machines.
However, when Windows NT came along, the concept of security took a bold step forward. NT defined a security system that was fairly foolproof. One would have to purposely hack into it to circumvent the intended security. With NT/Win2k/XP, security could be placed on anything: ...
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