What about re-entry? Since he is going up and not sideways re-entry isn't as much of a problem as going 17,000 MPH and hitting the atmosphere at an angle. It's up, up, up to basically a stall and falling back down with parachutes to slow you down. He is going to have an option to eject and use a conventional backpack parachute.
Solutions like that seem like a great idea, unless you have to worry about data retention. Magnetic media has a shorter shelf life than optical usually, especially if you keep the optical media away from nasty UV rays and whatnot. Not a good option if you have to keep your backups for long periods of time.
I work with a number of tier 1 and 3 automotive suppliers, and they always tell me the same thing when getting new equipment... The cost has to be as low as possible. I can't begin to say how many of my clients have switched from solaris or hpux to NT, intel hardware may not be as well designed, but it gets the job done at a much lower cost. Most of my clients could care less about the OS on the box (in fact, many prefer UNIX since most designers don't know it... keeps down on IM clients, P2P, and other time wasters at work.) Parts of Unigraphics (GM) are now available for Linux, if the rest was offered, along with Catia (Chrysler) I could see a large number of my clients switching. A port of ideas (Ford) would help too... but IMHO that product won't be around much longer.
I'd like to see more screen space, not just higher res, but more physical space. Perhaps dual screens that folded paperback book style. This gives the added bonus that with good case design, the PDA could also be damage resistant... Titanium shell, etc...
"In those days, you could learn to love a record that had a $100 bill on it," says Del Coliano. "If it had a $200 bill on it,... the disc jockey says, 'So nice, I'll play it twice.'"
Wow, so all I have to do to get on the radio is make denominations of money that don't exist and give it to people?
You can submerse one of these completely, should make it very easy to disinfect. I have one just because it folds nicely into a very small space, great for travel. Key response is only ok, but the size is much better than many laptop keyboards.
This attack doesn't pertain to simple memory cards, but rather full blown microprocessor cards. Here's a good primer explaining some of the differences.
Basically in a 'real' smart card, you access the data through the microprocessor, not directly. The encryption is performed on the card itself, not the host, increasing security (at least until now I suppose.)
speculation () { Or NASA just bought the parts outright, without contracting with Intel. Not everything they buy is purchased with special contract, perhaps their engineers knew/liked the 8086 and just decided to use it. }
Even the major vendors realize that there is some value in aesthetics. Some Compaq and Dell servers now come with a pretty (photon light style) blue LED (sure it serves the purpose of helping you find the system in a crowded Rack, but they could have used any kind of LED for that.) A number of Suns also come with a nice iridescant sun logo compliments of frosted plexiglass and white LED's. If it doesn't damage the system, I see nothing wrong with making it look nice. It's the same reason people don't like to drive beat up cars, even if they do run well.
Leaves the lamps, but keeps the power assembly, so it's still just as bulky. Sure it gets great resolution, but only if there is no movement of the subject. As I said, kudos for the design, and a great idea, but not of any practical use.
Cool hack, but it would be tied to the computer. Plus, the cathode lamps in scanners make the power supplies ungainly. You could buy a little webcam for much less than $100, and get much better shots from it. Awesome idea, well implemented, but not of any real use.
It just looks like scsi, and that's on purpose by design. Makes migration very easy. Fibre channel includes a number of features not present on SCSI such as loop arbitration. Fibre channel also sends the data serially. True you can encapsulate scsi over fibre channel, but you can also encapsulate TCP/IP. That doesn't mean that my symmetrix has to use it.
Those all work fine... but not if the lun isn't in sd.conf, the only way to add a lun is to reload the sd driver, and since it's in use by the kernel this requires a reboot. This is a recognized problem that is addressed in the betas of solaris 9, of course betas aren't approved for production use around here.
In high performance applications, SCSI is being used less in the real world. You see a lot of fibre channel, especially switched fabric architecture. With the way most sans will cache data, throughput is ridiculously fast in this architecture. As switched fabric becomes more and more affordable, you'll see it used more often in less demanding applications. now if only I didn't have to reboot to add disk to my Sun boxen. Damn sd driver, I guess I'll wait for Solaris 9.
Make sure the company you choose does a complete audit. Find someone who will not only audit your servers, but also your network, and physical location. Make sure you find a company large enough to handle this. Smaller firms may not have the personnel necessary to evaluate a very large data center.
Remember, a good security audit is going to point out flaws. Try to make it well known that this audit is going on, and that suggestions will be made for improvement. Try not to emphasize any one problem, and do NOT make anything accusitory. This will soften the blow somewhat.
Getting the boss to pay out can be hard. My best advice is to write up a business cost analysis. Clearly list actions suggested, their costs, what risks they mitigate, and the potential damage of these risks. A good manager may not sign off on everything, but will at least make improvement.
Most state governments and companies I have worked with have an enterprise security division. Does your organization? This group should be independant of everyone else, and should have some power to enforce security policies (you do have a standard security policy, right?)
If you don't have a stated security policy, write one up. This is one thing that a good security firm will want to review, (or help you create.)
Audits should be performed regularly, and should be integrated with the change control process. Any changes to a production system should result in a new security audit of that system. This is another reason it is wise to have an enterprise security group, they can offload that work.
If you have any of this in place, you are absolutely ahead of an unnamed Midwestern State government for whom I am currently working. One company I can recommend is EDS they do a lot of government work, have a massive army of people, and can evaluate not just security, but other parts of your enterprise that tie in. Good luck on this undertaking, you have a lot of work ahead.
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Solutions like that seem like a great idea, unless you have to worry about data retention. Magnetic media has a shorter shelf life than optical usually, especially if you keep the optical media away from nasty UV rays and whatnot. Not a good option if you have to keep your backups for long periods of time.
I work with a number of tier 1 and 3 automotive suppliers, and they always tell me the same thing when getting new equipment... The cost has to be as low as possible. I can't begin to say how many of my clients have switched from solaris or hpux to NT, intel hardware may not be as well designed, but it gets the job done at a much lower cost. Most of my clients could care less about the OS on the box (in fact, many prefer UNIX since most designers don't know it... keeps down on IM clients, P2P, and other time wasters at work.) Parts of Unigraphics (GM) are now available for Linux, if the rest was offered, along with Catia (Chrysler) I could see a large number of my clients switching. A port of ideas (Ford) would help too... but IMHO that product won't be around much longer.
Actually, it's the moon that's in the way.
I'd like to see more screen space, not just higher res, but more physical space. Perhaps dual screens that folded paperback book style. This gives the added bonus that with good case design, the PDA could also be damage resistant... Titanium shell, etc...
Wow, so all I have to do to get on the radio is make denominations of money that don't exist and give it to people?
You can submerse one of these completely, should make it very easy to disinfect. I have one just because it folds nicely into a very small space, great for travel. Key response is only ok, but the size is much better than many laptop keyboards.
This attack doesn't pertain to simple memory cards, but rather full blown microprocessor cards. Here's a good primer explaining some of the differences.
Basically in a 'real' smart card, you access the data through the microprocessor, not directly. The encryption is performed on the card itself, not the host, increasing security (at least until now I suppose.)
speculation () {
Or NASA just bought the parts outright, without contracting with Intel. Not everything they buy is purchased with special contract, perhaps their engineers knew/liked the 8086 and just decided to use it.
}
not photon style... Photon Light Style
Even the major vendors realize that there is some value in aesthetics. Some Compaq and Dell servers now come with a pretty (photon light style) blue LED (sure it serves the purpose of helping you find the system in a crowded Rack, but they could have used any kind of LED for that.) A number of Suns also come with a nice iridescant sun logo compliments of frosted plexiglass and white LED's. If it doesn't damage the system, I see nothing wrong with making it look nice. It's the same reason people don't like to drive beat up cars, even if they do run well.
Leaves the lamps, but keeps the power assembly, so it's still just as bulky. Sure it gets great resolution, but only if there is no movement of the subject. As I said, kudos for the design, and a great idea, but not of any practical use.
Cool hack, but it would be tied to the computer. Plus, the cathode lamps in scanners make the power supplies ungainly. You could buy a little webcam for much less than $100, and get much better shots from it. Awesome idea, well implemented, but not of any real use.
It just looks like scsi, and that's on purpose by design. Makes migration very easy. Fibre channel includes a number of features not present on SCSI such as loop arbitration. Fibre channel also sends the data serially. True you can encapsulate scsi over fibre channel, but you can also encapsulate TCP/IP. That doesn't mean that my symmetrix has to use it.
only works if the luns are already in sd.conf
Those all work fine... but not if the lun isn't in sd.conf, the only way to add a lun is to reload the sd driver, and since it's in use by the kernel this requires a reboot. This is a recognized problem that is addressed in the betas of solaris 9, of course betas aren't approved for production use around here.
In high performance applications, SCSI is being used less in the real world. You see a lot of fibre channel, especially switched fabric architecture. With the way most sans will cache data, throughput is ridiculously fast in this architecture. As switched fabric becomes more and more affordable, you'll see it used more often in less demanding applications. now if only I didn't have to reboot to add disk to my Sun boxen. Damn sd driver, I guess I'll wait for Solaris 9.
Make sure the company you choose does a complete audit. Find someone who will not only audit your servers, but also your network, and physical location. Make sure you find a company large enough to handle this. Smaller firms may not have the personnel necessary to evaluate a very large data center.
Remember, a good security audit is going to point out flaws. Try to make it well known that this audit is going on, and that suggestions will be made for improvement. Try not to emphasize any one problem, and do NOT make anything accusitory. This will soften the blow somewhat.
Getting the boss to pay out can be hard. My best advice is to write up a business cost analysis. Clearly list actions suggested, their costs, what risks they mitigate, and the potential damage of these risks. A good manager may not sign off on everything, but will at least make improvement.
Most state governments and companies I have worked with have an enterprise security division. Does your organization? This group should be independant of everyone else, and should have some power to enforce security policies (you do have a standard security policy, right?)
If you don't have a stated security policy, write one up. This is one thing that a good security firm will want to review, (or help you create.)
Audits should be performed regularly, and should be integrated with the change control process. Any changes to a production system should result in a new security audit of that system. This is another reason it is wise to have an enterprise security group, they can offload that work.
If you have any of this in place, you are absolutely ahead of an unnamed Midwestern State government for whom I am currently working. One company I can recommend is EDS they do a lot of government work, have a massive army of people, and can evaluate not just security, but other parts of your enterprise that tie in. Good luck on this undertaking, you have a lot of work ahead.