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Date:      Tue, 05 Jan 1999 07:47:46 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot blocks for serial console ...
Message-ID:  <36914512.88F25E22@newsguy.com>
References:  <15625.915482661@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <39041.915481311@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
> >> They will guarantee that you will not get access to anything in
> >> the computer.  Last perimeter will inject 220V (mains) through
> >> vital bits of the computer (including your flash disk) if broken.
> >
> >I'm curious how many codicils there are in their contract about
> >"tamper-proof", however.
> 
> They are graded like bank safes, "number of hours minimum resistance
> to best known state of the art attack", starting at 4 going up to
> 168 in this somewhat old catalog".
> 
> But I think we're getting sidetracked from bootcode here aren't we ?

True enough. How do these things boot? And will they run FreeBSD?
:-)

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com

	"Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory,
	soul like a lucifer, black and cold as a piece of lead."

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