On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:58, LinuxLingam mused:
>
> yes, i know that. have done so with knoppix and grinned at the naked level of
> access. but, you see, raj, gnulinux does not talk about 'pall eh dee dum'
aah palladium and TCPA for the uninitiated is M$ ++ great scheme to make
the Chinese ( and Indians ) pay for the Wind*** Software and other
diabolical schemes from the proverbial big (bad) guys to control what
your machine does to you.
and
> agreed. at one time, i used to think, the only secure system is a system
> isolated, locked up in a basement, with no windows, double steel doors, a
> radiation, emi shield, and no link whatsoever with the outside, and using its
> own power source, such as a battery or a generator.
3 days battery access
6 months generator backups
with only a single-person
> access
Keycard Access
, multiple security checks through combinations of physical locks,
> obscure locations
No most are not that paranoid. Infact it makes good business sense to
have DataCenters very near and prominently visible to big cities.
biometric filters,
Atleast one product I know runs on Win@K .
and only *one* person knows the
> physical location of the machine: the end user.
Don't be too sure :-)
>
> but, i am no longer sure even this is secure in today's distrustful world,
> any longer.....
Data Centers back it up with a number of agreements.
Couple of Data Centers in US are actually designed to withstand Nuclear Attacks.
Tarun Dua
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