Re: air gap security tech

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 15:52:25 MST


Chuck Kuecker wrote:
>
> You are missing the point. This is one of those gadgets that keeps viruses
> from crawling down the wires into your computer.

A physical implementation of a security feature will always be harder to
attack than a virtual implementation, even if the feature itself isn't all
that useful.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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