Bruce Schneier writes:
``There is even a duress finger,'' Rushworth said. ``That is for if a terrorist or gunman has a gun to the minister's head forcing him to open the computer. It will appear to function normally but doesn't, and sends a silent alarm to the Cabinet Office.''
This is INSANE. How could someone be so stupid as to announce such a feature in a newspaper. I guess this means that if a terrorist sees a Cabinet minister with such a computer, he had better shoot to kill.
The whole point of a feature like this is that its existence is secret. Someone is NOT paying attention.
I don't think the machine is going to do any silent alarming in the grounded Faraday cage with the 10 severed fingers lying on a plate next to it. Anyone know what they actually use to sector encrypt the file system on these things? It would be somewhat amusing if it were snake oil based. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"