On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 13:33:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/02/2018 12:41 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 13:34:16 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:30:55PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > > What *prevents* a user from destroying his own backup files? > > > > > > Intelligence, or an air gap, or both. > > > > The same things which prevent him from destroying the original files? > > Nothing to do with permissions or ACLs. You make Michael Stone's point > > for him. > > > > A question in lieu of a parable. > Would a resident of a 25th floor flat appreciate a railing on his balcony?#
Indubitably he would. It doesn't destroy his freedom to throw himself over it, though. -- Brian.
