I think that most hard drives can be physically made read only by removing a jumper or a wire. This may solve the problem of someone
who has already penitrated the OS. This will be cheaper than a CD-ROM or similar.
Dorian
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>According to Howard B Owen:
>>
>> You could put your checker on read-only media. Better yet, you
>>could put a good portion of your executable code on a read-only HD.
>>
>
>Why not just burn the fs onto a CDROM? The executables should be
>static for a long time and a one off CDROM from a bureau is pretty
>cheap. It would be even more attractive if you have a CDROM writer...
>
>--
>Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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>"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes
>and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum
>tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons."
> -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
>
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