[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > Matt Schalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/30/2002 10:22:44 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Phillip Watts/austin/Nlynx) > > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] ssh firewall > > > > 4) hardware protectable IDE Flash disk module > > Explain this one , please .
A mass storage device for a firewall preferrably would have a way to write protect it. A floppy diskette for instance has the little tab that you slide into position. This can not be circumvented by software tricks, ie can't be circumvented by a potential hacker. Currently, only a floppies and tapes have hardware write protect, iirc. A lot of developers have been keen to gain mass storage capacity at low cost, but are hampered by a lack of hardware write protect on hard drives and flash storage. Mike Noyes picked up an ADM, a flash storage IDE Disk Module, which was under $20 for 8 MB. It plugs into your ide plug. If it only had a micro switch on it for write protect, we would have glory. Four of us got together in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago at the Linux Embedded Systems Conference to track down vendors and look for a solution. For all the details, read the leaf-devel archives thread called "ADM write protect" and perhaps the earlier one, "CF (write protect) + IDE adapter" both posted at the beginning of February. The current problem is that the ADM is so small that soldering in a switch to those micro sized surface mount contact points is looking very tough. Regards, Matthew _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
