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

[Scott Granados <scott () graphidelix net>]

They did but when you mentioned this I went to look for it and haven't 
found it. .

As I recall this was infact for the nsa but I don't remember the exact 
application.
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Joseph T. Klein wrote:

> 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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