On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:46, Sam Clegg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:23:09AM -0700, David Caldwell wrote: > > Sounds like what you really want is a way to take exclusive access to the > > camera device somehow. Can you exclusively open the device and prevent > > others from opening it too? I suppose even that would have a timing > > splinter: Someone could take exclusive control before you got a chance... > > I would like to see someting like this for hotpluggable storage as well. > > If I want to keep private data (private keys etc) on a USB keyring I > would like to be sure that nobody else can mount it before me. > > Perhaps the hotplug system could implement some kind of method for a > user to say "any device plugged in the next 1 minute is mine". Clearly > this is vulnerable to DoS by others but this is far better than others > being able to mount your disks/read your photos.
Ivo is apparently taking over crypto-api and hopefully he'll have it in sarge soon. That should solve your problem, just encrypt the device and only the user with the password can get access. -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the >From field.
