crypto question
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Fri Mar 22 00:28:54 EST 2002
As someone who spent 5 years doing all the physical security for a major
university I can say that ALL physical systems can be broken. No
exception. The three laws of thermodynamics apply to security systems as
well.
There is ALWAYS a hole.
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> It's not clear to me what having the human present accomplishes.
> While the power was out, the node computer could have been tampered
> with, e.g. a key logger attached.
> Who said you were allowed to lose power and stay secure? Laptops are
> pretty cheap and come with multi-hour batteries. There should be
> enough physical security around the node to prevent someone from
> "tripping" power.
>
> One approach might be to surround a remote node with enough sensors
> so that it can detect an unauthorized attempt to physically approach
> it.
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