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Terry Lambert wrote:

> Windows defaults to "everyone on the Internet can write my disk";
> FreeBSD defaults to "only root can write my disk"; OpenBSD defaults
> to "only God can write my disk, and even he needs a 1024 bit key".

One for the fortune file!

Well, it made me laugh. :)

						-- C.