On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Richard Amerman wrote: > It seems to me that reguardless of what you do to write-protect the > medium, you have to flush (restart) the system regularly to be the > most secure. This would idealy have to be done by some method that is > both independant of the LEAF firewall itself and the systems it is > protecting as these methods could be compromised. If you had a simple > hardware timer that recycled the power on the machine every night or > on some schedule that makes sense this would work.
I disagree. Flushing ram flushes evidence of disturbances, and does nothing to find or eliminate latent weaknesses. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html