On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Richard Amerman wrote:
> It seems to me that reguardless of what you do to write-protect the
> medium, you have to flush (restart) the system regularly to be the
> most secure. This would idealy have to be done by some method that is
> both independant of the LEAF firewall itself and the systems it is
> protecting as these methods could be compromised. If you had a simple
> hardware timer that recycled the power on the machine every night or
> on some schedule that makes sense this would work.
I disagree. Flushing ram flushes evidence of disturbances, and does
nothing to find or eliminate latent weaknesses.
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