Thanks Horst and others
My primary interest is to provide my 30 specialist colleagues in our
group with a device that will allow them to log onto our network via a
VPN - securely - and use any computer as if they are in the rooms.
This would allow us to look up notes etc form theatre and do billing etc
Does BlackDog allow this or any other products that would - and must
really be luddite proof (ie. look and feel like windows)
Duncan Guy
www.specialistservices.com.au
Horst Herb wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:09, Duncan Guy wrote:
http://www.u3.com/default.aspx
Has anyone seen or used this ?
I own something even better and I am very happy with it:
http://projectblackdog.com/
It is a tiny device with integrated fingerprint reader. You plug it into any
XP box, Linux or OS/X box (some quirks on some Linux or OS/X boxes may
require installation of a driver).
It first appears as USB CDROM to the computer it is attached to, and executes
a program automatically (unless this feature is deliberately disabledon the
host computer). After authentication via finger print reader (+/- password)
it re-establishes itself as a network device and launches a X windows session
on the host computer.
That is, the blackdog is a computer the size of two thumb drives, using the
host computer as a terminal via a virtual network established via USB. In the
X session, you can launch any software that runs on (ARM architecture) Linux,
e.g. Firefox, Thunderbird, ssh, rsync, even OpenOffice. The host computer is
entirely unaware, and since the X-Session can be run encrypted, there is no
practical way for the host computer to sniff or log any data other than
continuous screen shots.
It's fabulous, and it's cheap.
Horst
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