If it's a web interface...why not just host the website at your own
office? Why is it necessary that the box be localized on somebody's
internal network? If you're planning to connect it via wifi, then
you're already conceding that bandwidth isn't going to be a huge
concern, so rather than invest in a bunch of boxes that you ship to
remote sites, why not invest that money in a beefy server (perhaps with
Virtualization to containerize the individual servers) and a nice hefty
internet uplink. Then your customers never have to touch the physical
boxes -- their only interface to your code and data is via the web,
which is how you're intending the data to be manipulated anyway.
Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A
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Ahmed Kamal wrote:
oh! No, the hardware is *not* my concern. It's the data! Let me quickly
recap. Let's try points this time
- The Linux system I build will be on someone else's network (mostly
other potentially hostile companies)
- The system provides a web interface to a database that users should
access & use
- The users should not be able to steal/mount the disk, to dump my
database or look at my code
- I know such setup will never be 100% secure, I just need to make
stealing the data as hard as possible
Hope that's clear. I apologize if I was not too clear earlier
On Jan 18, 2008 5:46 PM, J E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:27 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
> Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>> Perhaps I misused the word "kiosk" and was not clear describing the
>> role of
>> the nodes. They will not be on my network. They will be on someone
>> else's
>> network (some other company, or some other organization). The nodes
>> will be
>> providing network services (Custom databases, accessible through a
>> browser),
>> sometimes some ldap services.
>> Again, the people around the machine should use it as intended, no
>> one
>> should be able to steal/mount the disk to dump data (at least not
>> easily)
>
> I think we need better information about the problem you're trying
> to solve.
Agreed. If your main worry is that the hardware will be stolen, cheap
hardware abounds in the marketplace. I'd not invest heavily in systems
that aren't going to be monitored - probably better to treat them as
throwaways if you aren't going to lock them in some form of cabinet.
And don't rule out hardware terminal servers like those available from
HP starting at $200.
If it's the data that you are worried about, the fact that you have to
ask how best to protect it should tell you that doing it with local
storage is probably a very bad idea.
jef
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