8/27 I just gave a security presentation to a bunch of MBA students working
on a market strategy for http://www.giwano.com Aside from a mildly
unfortunate name, they have a cute idea, but it seems slightly
gimmicky to me. While I can think of nice roles for some kind of
"secure" storage like these, what's the almighty motd's opinion? -John
\_ sounds like hogwash. Either the user can't get data between the
two systems, or it's vulnerable to attack. -tom
\_ what do you have in mind re: unfortunate name? gitano? guano?
\_ Puerile, but yes. And as the PC (that's what it is) runs
XP, it is vulnerable to attack--the idea is to use the
flash memory between the two PC units to manually move
sensitive data back and forth. It's got a built-in KVM
switch to let you work on both units, so you could connect
the internal unit to a 'sensitive' network and share it with
PCs there. Or something. I think the idea has some merit,
but they're going about it all weird. -John
\_ Isn't this just reinventing sneaker net? --dim
\_ I tried to figure out exactly what they're doing but wasn't willing
to invest that much time doing so. Can you explain it in a few
short sentences? Generally, people with important data seem happy
with their current level of security. If they weren't then you'd
see products from the major vendors (EMC, Hitachi, IBM, Netapp, etc)
to address the issue. You don't but I wish them well anyway. |