Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>>He suggested finding an unused line on a UART. Typical routers don't use
>>their parallel ports for much, so I suppose you could toggle a bit on the
>>parport (I remember suggesting to Mike that Charles would be able to
>>consider the feasibility of this idea, based on his work with
> 
> parallel-port
> 
>>LCDs). And I2C might be able to do this too ... I don't really know about
>>that one.
>>
>>That said, it still *sounds* like software WP, even though there is a
>>hardware element involved. If the remote connection is compromised, then
> 
> so
> 
>>is security. He suggested you could find or create a protocol with
>>acceptably low risk of compromise ... but if this were true as a general
>>matter, we wouldn't be worrying about system penetrations, right?
> 
> 
> Right.  It's still software based write-protection, and someone with full
> access to the box can reverse engineer the setup pretty easily.


Ok I get it now.  I should have read this before my last question
a minute or two ago.

Thanks,
Matt



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