Feel free to steal this idea if you think it has merit.....disregard if you think it's BS. I want to develop a tamper-proof computer case, complete with a 12v (capacitor backup) electromagnet that would fit, between existing drives, in a 5 ¼ inch drive bay. Intra and interlocks would prevent the machine from being turned on or disassembled. Tampering would result in immediate loss of data via electromagnetic burst. I could see this unit complete with an exterior panic button, and remote dial-up capability (maybe even pager equipped). "Hello Agent Jones, you need to confiscate my computer? Well let me just set down my coffee/call my lawyer......ooops!" This could of course be used in a laptop (I don't want to get totally Offtopic).
You also may be missing the point...When I went back to visit my old home town, I found all the smaller grocery stores closed. It seems that a certain chain of stores (Topps) absorbed one, smaller chain. This made Topps the big guy in town....It was only a matter of time before the others were bought out, now guess where you shop.....well if you want food. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the free economy survival of the fittest and all that, but I'm not sure I want to eventually HAVE to use AOL (I already HAVE to use Time Warner.....if I want to keep my cable modem).
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Feel free to steal this idea if you think it has merit.....disregard if you think it's BS. I want to develop a tamper-proof computer case, complete with a 12v (capacitor backup) electromagnet that would fit, between existing drives, in a 5 ¼ inch drive bay. Intra and interlocks would prevent the machine from being turned on or disassembled. Tampering would result in immediate loss of data via electromagnetic burst. I could see this unit complete with an exterior panic button, and remote dial-up capability (maybe even pager equipped). "Hello Agent Jones, you need to confiscate my computer? Well let me just set down my coffee/call my lawyer......ooops!" This could of course be used in a laptop (I don't want to get totally Offtopic).
You also may be missing the point...When I went back to visit my old home town, I found all the smaller grocery stores closed. It seems that a certain chain of stores (Topps) absorbed one, smaller chain. This made Topps the big guy in town....It was only a matter of time before the others were bought out, now guess where you shop.....well if you want food. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the free economy survival of the fittest and all that, but I'm not sure I want to eventually HAVE to use AOL (I already HAVE to use Time Warner.....if I want to keep my cable modem).