On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:02:22 -0400
Lee Mavrogenis
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