From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:49:30 -0800 (PST)
To: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: ideal secure personal computer system
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>A friend of mine just got back from a kerberos conferance at MIT, at
>dinner one night they were talking about fun-n-easy ways to extract
>data from a machine. One of them mentioned that after a while, a "on"
>Of course, no computer is "secure" without a thermite charge above the
>hard drive, and a tamper-resistant case.
>"Well, Billy, the Sevret Service is here, they want to take away your
> computer (and telephone, and cassette tapes ,and etc.)"
>"Okay, mom. It's right over here, Mr. Scarry Secret Service dude."
><lift> "Ffffffts"
>"Hey, Billy, what's that smoke coming out of your computer?"
>

I discussed this seriously with an engineering acquaintence who has done
drive design for a number of major companies.  He thought this could be
easily achieved technically but might present some significant hurdles for
getting UL approval :-)  Seriously though, there might be a market for an
Mission Impossible drive retrofit kits which could be triggered by SW or
HW.

--Steve


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