Hi I believe the security concerns are well understood. But if we have someone on our doorstep with the ability Charles pointed out, of course he/she will be able to place some malware on our ram disk. It is not as bad es having an infected non volatile storage but I believe this attacker would be clever enough to fool the poor firewall user and make him feel secure. So even if we have write protected disks we probably would have to reboot periodically or have some other (non foolproof) prevention for such a scenario. Any thoughts ...
regards Erich Mike Noyes wrote the following at 19:14 29.06.2002: >On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 08:34, Mike Noyes wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 06:15, Manfred Schuler wrote: > > > one reason for software write protection is that people using flash/hard > > > disk at the moment have no other possibilities. And even if it is not > > > perfect, it is better than nothing. > >Manfred, >I forgot to mention SCSI as a solution for hard drives. SCSI drives have >had the ability to do hardware write-protect for many years. > > > Manfred, > > There are alternatives to software write-protect. Current generation > > flash disks are capable of hardware write-protect. They use two > > different approaches: > > > > * Custom ATA controllers on the IDE compatible flash disk. > > ATA-Disk Module > > http://www.sst.com/products/58sm_lm.html > > ATA-Disk Chip Application Notes > > http://www.sst.com/superflash/pdf/222.pdf > > ATA-Disk Module Product Brief > > http://www.sst.com/ata_disk/admbrief.pdf > > ATA-Disk Module (Apacer) > > http://www.apacer.com/product/flash/index_adc_adm.html > > > > * A software and hardware combination that changes the write state > > of the flash disk in hardware. > > Secure Disk on Module (SDOM) > > http://www.pqi.com.tw/eng/ourproduct/sdom.htm > >-- >Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ >http://leaf-project.org/ > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >No, I will not fix your computer. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
