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 PGP Fingerprint: FE 90 1A 95 9D EA 8D 61 81 2E CC A9 A4 4A FB A9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schear | Internet: azur@netcom.com Lamarr Labs | Voice: 1-702-658-2654 7075 West Gowan Road | Fax: 1-702-658-2673 Suite 2148 | Las Vegas, NV 89129 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet and Wireless Development Defeat the Demopublican Unity Party. Vote no on Clinton/Dole in November. Vote Harry Browne, Libertarian, for President. http://www.harrybrowne96.org