Re: Brute force attack - need your advice

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:21:20 EST, Keith Kilroy said:

> The only box that is safe is the one unplugged hdd removed and
> destroyed and rest of system locked in a closet.

Actually, no. :) Some clever guys at UIUC managed to get a quantum CPU
that wasn't powered on to do some calculations *anyhow*:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18925405.700.html

Now, if the program run while it's turned off has an exploitable bug in it.....

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