Re: ideal secure personal computer system

>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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> >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
> 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.

     Well, how about this: spaced between each platter is 2 small files,
when the destroy is iniated, they simple dust off the platters. 

     Problem: 
     Power has to be on, 
     solution: don't turn the machine off unless you have to.   
               small (just enough to spin the drives up) battery in the
               drive case. 

     This shouldn't have too much trouble getting by the U.L.

Petro, Christopher C.
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