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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:27:56 +0300
From:      ark@eltex.ru
To:        wes@softweyr.com
Cc:        des@flood.ping.uio.no, Gregory@paranoid.eltex.spb.ru, Sutter@paranoid.eltex.spb.ru, <gsutter@pobox.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: preventing single user login w/o password
Message-ID:  <199812221027.NAA03688@paranoid.eltex.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <367E9E44.ADBB400A@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>"

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nuqneH,

Yep. Cool thing. Why Java, anyways? It will be better without it.

Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> said :

> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > 
> > Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> writes:
> > >
> > > Okay, it's 8:45 AM, and I'm still tired, but the first thing that came
> > > into my mind was an actual ring that one wears upon a finger.  Then I
> > > wondered about using that as a physical security key.  It would be
> > > easy to put a small chip or 2 in a ring; the reader could be sitting
> > > in a 5.25" slot until cases are specially built for the device, which
> > > would be plugged into the motherboard and prevent all input or
> > > somesuch mechanism until the chip is detected.
> > 
> > Congratulations on your new invention! Though I'm afraid it's already
> > patented by Sun Microsystems :)
> 
> Actually it is patented by Dallas Semiconductor, who makes them.  Only the
> Java techonology is owned by Sun.  See http://www.ibutton.com/ for more
> info.
> 
> And yes, these little things are *very* cool.
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