This is a Theory, not a fact..
No such Graphene membrane exists or has even been invented yet.
All they did was run a computer simulation, and then say that it should work this way IF somebody can invent the membrane.
her site is down, slashdotted.
This story was on Digg and Reddit last night, too.
Spread it even more, contact Kickstarter, shame the hell out of them, plenty of negative publicity.
If you use a live cd, then you're not booting to your [presumably] windows hard drive, so you are therefore avoiding any malware/trojan/virus therein.
There are no cookies or session id's or anything else saved from a live cd.
All it takes is a reboot to a Live cd, do your online banking, remove cd, reboot to windoze.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/e-banking_on_a_locked_down_non.html
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This is a Theory, not a fact.. No such Graphene membrane exists or has even been invented yet. All they did was run a computer simulation, and then say that it should work this way IF somebody can invent the membrane.
It's very possible that this is all a bs story on her part and she's just whoring for attention.
Kickstarter may have made the right call.
Reddit uncovered some more info about her, that doesn't paint her in a very good light:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840589
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_from_kickstarter_for_being_a_stalking/c4c5j7r
her site is down, slashdotted.
This story was on Digg and Reddit last night, too.
Spread it even more, contact Kickstarter, shame the hell out of them, plenty of negative publicity.
If you use a live cd, then you're not booting to your [presumably] windows hard drive, so you are therefore avoiding any malware/trojan/virus therein. There are no cookies or session id's or anything else saved from a live cd. All it takes is a reboot to a Live cd, do your online banking, remove cd, reboot to windoze. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/e-banking_on_a_locked_down_non.html