Intrusion Detection For Your PC Case 213
Anonymous Coward writes "Ryan du Bois, from genbukan security (aka red0x), has created a chassis intrusion detection system for your computer box: the actual physical case. He also wrote a paper describing three separate implementations of this CIDS system: Contacts, Pressure switchs, and a PLA (programmable microchip). Included in his paper are complete designs for the first two and a promise for the last to come soon. Definitely worth a read. The paper is available in many formats including
OpenOffice 1.0,
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and a Tarball of them all. You can also obtain the
signatures as well as his Automated Security Tools Project, of which this is a member."
This is news? (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't imagine someone cobbling together something that has existed forever is news...
What a bunch of Rubes!... Goldberg, that is (Score:4, Insightful)
Moderation (Score:3, Insightful)
It's really too bad when the people running the site know less than the people reading it.
Twoflower
More important things to worry about (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not just use a chain to the desk which locks the case shut? Then you're safe in both cases.
Useless, useless, useless (Score:5, Insightful)
So what we have here is some fourteen year old with his own "security" organization, a metric buttload of super glue and an utter lack of clue who writes a frankly useless article so that he can pretend he's important whilst slinging around big acronyms like "PLA" and "VHDL" when the tools they represent are useless to the task at hand. In other words, a snake-oil salesman.
-jhp, smacking down dim-bulbs everywhere
So Basically... (Score:3, Insightful)
If you can't tell from all the other posts, this has been implemented for a great number of years on nearly all business-grade desktops, usually accompanied by a provision for a physical lock.
If this kid actually gets someone to buy into this and pay him to license his "software", I've gotta give him at least a little respect. At least he's not the one paying for it.
--Ribald