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New Two-Headed Hard Drive Intended To Secure Web Sites

Posted by timothy on from the or-serve-from-a-dreamcast dept.

dlur writes: "This article states that Scarabs (In Japanese), a Japanese company, is developing a hard drive with two heads, one read-only and another that is read/write. With this comes two cables, the read-only side going to the external web server, and the r/w cable going to an internal protected server. While this should make it quite a bit tougher for script kiddies to place their mark on a page, I doubt it will stop any real hackers from getting to a site's DB as that would still need to be r/w."

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  1. What would be the input route? by Uttles · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How would user generated data be processed and placed on the hard drive through the r/w cable? This hard drive seems like a great idea for static or non-interactive websites, but if you're going to have user generated data, then it's going to be hard to not let anyone get access to the hard drive.

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  2. Damn good idea by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That is a really good idea!

    I hope they patent it quick before someone steals it and makes millions off their hard work.

  3. How are cookies (session data) going to be stored? by mikehoskins · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In other words, is it even useful?

  4. Re:Hey before you go out and buy one by t0qer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just outta curiosity..

    Are you reffering to SCSI or IDE? Which line is it exactly?

    Looking at the IDE pinout, Pin23 is the write line. Can you really just cut the thing? I've never tried this, sounds interesting. Maybe a dip switch would be better than cutting though.

    I think you just hit on something. Too bad you posted as AC... If someone REALLY didn't want to use a CDR (slow access, slow raid, ect) That would be a cheap way of doing it. No need for yet another dumb product.

    Good point!

    --toq