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I believe I can create a "more perfect" lock...

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 10:47 PM EDT

I'm reminded of idiot-proofing...they will, of course, make better idiots!

Quite seriously, I have some ideas I need to bounce off someone...and physical
control over the hardware can *always* break software locks....just image it,
and run it in a VM and give the OS Alzheimer's, or have it do a little DOS
attack consisting of all the user interaction pointed at your favorite website
and just happening to pass through your pwned web server!

I'm not at a point where I can estimate resources, but I also know that given 2
employed programmers, one will take 10x as long as the other to do the SAME
problem, just due to skill differences. See "Mythical Man Month" by
Fred Brooks.

So if I can get the right people interested, not long...but in the mean time I
slave away on an 8051 and steal time for a dsPIC30F4011...and need to learn
'Droid phones. (Christenson)

A *BIG* part of the mousetrap is that smaller is better....

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

But a "more perfect" lock is still an imperfect lock... and therefore pickable - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 12:37 AM EDT
- But a "more perfect" lock is still an imperfect lock... and therefore pickable - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 07:42 AM EDT
  - So... picture this: Virus that waits - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:30 AM EDT
  - I'm just going to add: these are examples - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT
    - flaws in logic - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 03:52 PM EDT
      - So... auto-save functionality ceases to exist? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 05:18 PM EDT
        Auto save is fine....as long as THAT is what it is.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:05 PM EDT
        And if I want it to save to the boot partition? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT
        Time to create a new boot CD.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 11:09 PM EDT
        You are owner, you do what you want.... Bingo! - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 03:22 AM EDT
        Reasonable certainty of intentionality...not hard to do... - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 12:15 PM EDT
        When you're done, you can offer up a challenge - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 09:39 AM EDT

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