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Mutant two-headed hard drive aims for security
« on: July 25, 2002, 02:56:30 AM »
A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.

Tokyo-based Scarabs has developed a prototype of the hard drive, which has a read-only head and a read-write head. The Web server can only read from the drive, theoretically making it impossible for attackers to deface the site or otherwise modify data.

Gee, maybe this will be M$'s saviour (not that I want them to be saved) since they can't seem to write secure software worth a crap!

Source:  CNET News.com Full Story
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