Good security uses 'something you have' and 'something you know', so wouldn't it be a better idea to use some sort of password/keypad along with the usb key?
I worked on designing and implementing one of these e-Courtrooms, and you have to appreciate that there's often a lot of resistance from established practises - remember these are typically old government agencies that are happy with the 'safety' of paper and physical evidence. It can often be quite a shock to them to use electronic mechanisms.
Support is also an interesting one, and can give new meaning losses due to downtime. It all comes back to lawyer's fees:)
I think there are certain criteria for an MS product to be even considered as a candidate for an open-source product.
1. It has to _not_ have a direct revenue stream. So Windows and Office are out. 2. It can't be a strategic product - why would MS want to open-source a product that they're basing their business on. Too risky. 3. It has to be useful. Sure, they could release Microsoft Bob or any number of products that have died a horrible death. But if it's not useful to people, what's the point? 4. It has to be interesting. This has already been mentioned - to attract developers, developers have to be interested in the end result. 5. It should be something that can really benefit from a lot of extra eyes looking at it. Something that perhaps doesn't already have a dedicated development team within Microsoft.
So my vote would be for something like the Outlook Connector for Notes. OK, maybe it's not so interesting but it's definately useful and is currently offered as a free download add-on to Outlook. There's a lot of functionality there that could be improved but Microsoft doesn't really have a lot on incentive to expend resources on it, apart from potentially winning over current Notes users.
It's seems strange to me that the cans would be so easily distinguishable... I mean if the person loading the coke machines and the store keepers selling coke see one of these winning cans - do you think they're gonna put it out for regular sale?
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By default the windows administrator account can't be locked out with too many attempts...
Good security uses 'something you have' and 'something you know', so wouldn't it be a better idea to use some sort of password/keypad along with the usb key?
I worked on designing and implementing one of these e-Courtrooms, and you have to appreciate that there's often a lot of resistance from established practises - remember these are typically old government agencies that are happy with the 'safety' of paper and physical evidence. It can often be quite a shock to them to use electronic mechanisms.
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Support is also an interesting one, and can give new meaning losses due to downtime. It all comes back to lawyer's fees
I think there are certain criteria for an MS product to be even considered as a candidate for an open-source product.
1. It has to _not_ have a direct revenue stream. So Windows and Office are out.
2. It can't be a strategic product - why would MS want to open-source a product that they're basing their business on. Too risky.
3. It has to be useful. Sure, they could release Microsoft Bob or any number of products that have died a horrible death. But if it's not useful to people, what's the point?
4. It has to be interesting. This has already been mentioned - to attract developers, developers have to be interested in the end result.
5. It should be something that can really benefit from a lot of extra eyes looking at it. Something that perhaps doesn't already have a dedicated development team within Microsoft.
So my vote would be for something like the Outlook Connector for Notes. OK, maybe it's not so interesting but it's definately useful and is currently offered as a free download add-on to Outlook. There's a lot of functionality there that could be improved but Microsoft doesn't really have a lot on incentive to expend resources on it, apart from potentially winning over current Notes users.
It's seems strange to me that the cans would be so easily distinguishable ... I mean if the person loading the coke machines and the store keepers selling coke see one of these winning cans - do you think they're gonna put it out for regular sale?