Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

[Joseph T. Klein]

Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory
back in the late 70s or early 80s?

I think they developed it for the NSA.

--On Thursday, 23 May 2002 14:53 -0700 Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jason K. Schechner wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> > > > Can you set flash drives to be write-only?
> > > Why would you want to do this?
> > Logging.  If a h@xx0r cracks your box he can't erase anything that's
> > already been written there.  Often it takes a physical change (jumper,
> > dipswitch, etc) to change from write-only to read-only making it pretty
> > tough for the h@xx0r to cover his steps.
> Eh? Setting a flash drive to *write-only* would fix this how? Why would
> anyone want to make a flash drive *write-only*?
>
> -Dan
> --
> [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
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