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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