| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Hacking Security Tallies (Was Re: Weird Campaigns) -Reply |
| Date: | Fri, 22 May 1998 11:36:29 +0100 |
> Except that the security tally will be implemented in hardware as much
> as possible, for this very reason. Reseting a security tally manually
> should require inserting a special key into a lock on the mainframe. You
> can't put too much into hardware or you loose the flexibilty to adapt or
> upgrade, but security tally certainly can go there.
But there's still a part that depends on software -- some or another
routine has to check whether the key is in the computer. If you can
fool that, you're as good as there. (Except for defeating any IC that may
be sitting around the security tally...)
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