Re: Help with virus/hackers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
17 Apr 2003 17:26:51 +0100


On Iau, 2003-04-17 at 16:45, John Bradford wrote:
> I've often wondered whether it would be worth connecting a very large
> serial EEPROM to a serial port interface, and have it effectively
> appear as a solid state printer, (to that you could cheaply log to an
> unmodifyable device). Has anybody ever tried this?

Linux supports console on printer. Its not totally foolproof (there is
a famous story of someone who simply reprinted the past two days of logs
edited so the admins wouldnt realise when they looked) but it works pretty
well. Just use a dot-matrix printer save keeping HP, Lexmark or Xerox in
business 8)

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