New Two-Headed Hard Drive Intended To Secure Web Sites

dlur writes: "This article states that Scarabs (In Japanese), a Japanese company, is developing a hard drive with two heads, one read-only and another that is read/write. With this comes two cables, the read-only side going to the external web server, and the r/w cable going to an internal protected server. While this should make it quite a bit tougher for script kiddies to place their mark on a page, I doubt it will stop any real hackers from getting to a site's DB as that would still need to be r/w."

slashdot freak show

[tps12]

First a 60-foot squid, now a mutant two-headed hard drive. What next, the announcement of the Bearded Lady Linux distro?

Pfttt, old news

[Dirtside]

Zaphod's been using this kind of drive for years to store his porn collection.

Re:slashdot freak show

[The_Guv'na]

Nope, no bearded lady as yet. You'll just have to make do with Lesbian Linux [linuks.mine.nu].

Ali

But.... But.....!

[The_Shadows]

Too easy... Must resist!
Nah, forget it.

"I mean, two heads are better than one."

Ahem

[The_Shadows]

So sayeth the article:

Hackers will be unable to attack Web sites protected by a new security system unless they can change the laws of physics, according to Naoto Takano

I'm working on it all ready. So far I've managed to get the relativity theory down to E/2 = MC^(1.9)

And standard Earth Gravity now has a value of 8.8m/s/s.

Up.

And don't try to fill up a garbage bag anytime soon. I've been playing with volume. They're now "Garbage Bags of Holding."

Nice doggy...

[maiden_taiwan]

Add one more head, and you've got the perfect drive for a Kerberos server.

Re:Hey before you go out and buy one

[siphoncolder]

Not exactly a good solution for a high-volume site, though. Can you imagine /. being served from a CD-ROM ?

How many Exp. Points do I get?

[Reverend Beaker]

So if an ettin has a challenge rating of seven, what would a two-headed hard drive be?

Re:Still exploitable?

[yiantsbro]

A reboot is "only slightly more convenient" than a system restore? Exactly what is your reboot procedure? Does it involve chants, incantations, burning of incense, animal sacrifice, etc? Kind of like saying repainting my car is only slightly more convenient than simply going through a carwash. :)

Old News

[guttentag]

This has been done before. God created the first secure content site on three... er, make that two... Two read-only stone tablets in the year a-few-thousand-BC. But even they were vulnerable. Legend has it Moses was so frustrated in his attempts to replace the tablets' content with "mozez ownz yoo" he destroyed them.

Prior Art?

[El_Smack]

According to this [janictradition.org] "The God Janus, husband of Jana, is known as the custodian of the universe, the God who watches over doors and gateways, and the two-headed God of ... "

Please send any patent inquires to
Cesear, Emporer of Rome
123 Pantheon Drive

Re:Nasty thing to do to buffer cache

[Anonymous Coward]

What a party pooper. Here we are having a perfectly
good time talking about something we know absolutely
nothing about and along comes an educated person that
decides to spoil the party with a little knowledge.
Damn you and all of your technology. ;.)

Re:Hey before you go out and buy one

[Jonny 290]

Yeah, and some dumb overclocker kid at the colo puts a UV cold cathode in there cause it 'looks cool' and erases the whole fuckin thing. :)

Neat idea, in all seriousness.