Re: Help with virus/hackers

[John Bradford]

> > 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)

!!!  You can't be serious :-)

> but it works pretty well. Just use a dot-matrix printer save keeping
> HP, Lexmark or Xerox in business 8)

Aren't you concerned with all of the trees that will be cut down to
make that paper, though?

I think 1 tree = about 50 reams.  Let's say you get through a ream a
day, that's a tree every couple of months!

Maybe there is a way to encode the data in the rings of the tree while
it's still growing, that would be the ultimate WORM device :-) :-)
:-).

John.