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Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Sat May 25 02:55:10 2002

Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: FiXXiT@off-road.com
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>,
	"E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
	Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205231732440.56262-100000@shell.cais.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jason K. Schechner wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> > > Can you set flash drives to be write-only?
> > Why would you want to do this?
> Logging.  If a h@xx0r cracks your box he can't erase anything that's
> already been written there.  Often it takes a physical change (jumper,
> dipswitch, etc) to change from write-only to read-only making it pretty
> tough for the h@xx0r to cover his steps.

Eh? Setting a flash drive to *write-only* would fix this how? Why would 
anyone want to make a flash drive *write-only*?

-Dan
-- 
[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]


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