Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:02:22 -0400
Lee Mavrogenis <leemav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well boys and girls it appears I have touched a nerve.
> 
> Granted, almost without exception any security scheme can be
> breached--however thats no excuse to give everyone a key to the front
> door.   

Yeah, you can only build walls, it depends on how high you want those
walls to be.  Some people prefer to "trust in God".
>From what I've read, the really secure 
computers are in a Faraday Cage, running on independent power, 
inside a windowless cement room,  with an armed guard at the door,
under constant video surveillance.  Then you need to compile
all your apps from source code, with a bunch of geeks scrutinizing
all the code for holes.  You probably also need to rip apart a few
of the processors to make sure that no "secret registers exist in it".

I've also read somewhere that some obscure telecommunications
law makes it  illegal for Americans to build Faraday Cages for their 
computers.....it makes me  wonder.............


-- 
use Perl;  #powerful programmable prestidigitation