I have vague memories of a case from a long time ago, where an attacker had put some sort of data encryption in place with the key only in memory. Assuming that memory isn't from a fever dream...
1) While the system was up and running, data could be copied to/from the server in unencrypted form. 2) Pulling the plug meant losing access to the data, because it meant losing the encryption key to the on-disk information.
vSphere is not too expensive: - Free licences for ESXi's basic functionality have been available for several years. - vSphere 5.1 Essentials costs $500 and gives you licences for a basic vCenter and three hosts with two sockets each.
[I use many qualifiers in this response, because I can't provide a reference to the original data; it's possible that this information is the product of fevered dreams caused by a late dinner of spicy food. Hopefully some/. reader will be able to point everyone to some concrete data.]
I hope you're aware that the lifetime of patents could change.
As I understand it, patents exist to protect intellectual property. Again, as I understand it, copyrights perform a similar function: they give some entity ownership of the product of their (or someone else's) mind, and that ownership expires after some period.
I seem to recall that in some countries, the lifetime of some (all?) copyrights was extended recently, by many years, and that the change had a grandfather clause: existing copyrighted properties had their copyrights extended. Coincidentally, that extension protects some very lucrative properties, for example the Mickey Mouse cartoon character.
I don't want to sound like a wild-eyed zealot, but if existing copyrights can be extended -- largely for the benefit of large/multi-national corporations -- can we rule out the possibility that patents might be too? If not, then saying "don't worry about them, they'll expire soon enough" is naïve.
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I have vague memories of a case from a long time ago, where an attacker had put some sort of data encryption in place with the key only in memory. Assuming that memory isn't from a fever dream...
1) While the system was up and running, data could be copied to/from the server in unencrypted form.
2) Pulling the plug meant losing access to the data, because it meant losing the encryption key to the on-disk information.
vSphere is not too expensive:
- Free licences for ESXi's basic functionality have been available for several years.
- vSphere 5.1 Essentials costs $500 and gives you licences for a basic vCenter and three hosts with two sockets each.
Ah. I've heard this as an old (ancient?) trick:
"the magic carpet will work as long as you do not think of a blue elephant."
[I use many qualifiers in this response, because I can't provide a reference to the original data; it's possible that this information is the product of fevered dreams caused by a late dinner of spicy food. Hopefully some /. reader will be able to point everyone to some concrete data.]
I hope you're aware that the lifetime of patents could change.
As I understand it, patents exist to protect intellectual property. Again, as I understand it, copyrights perform a similar function: they give some entity ownership of the product of their (or someone else's) mind, and that ownership expires after some period.
I seem to recall that in some countries, the lifetime of some (all?) copyrights was extended recently, by many years, and that the change had a grandfather clause: existing copyrighted properties had their copyrights extended. Coincidentally, that extension protects some very lucrative properties, for example the Mickey Mouse cartoon character.
I don't want to sound like a wild-eyed zealot, but if existing copyrights can be extended -- largely for the benefit of large/multi-national corporations -- can we rule out the possibility that patents might be too? If not, then saying "don't worry about them, they'll expire soon enough" is naïve.