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

    In other words, is it even useful?