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RE: Ever seen a dead-man switch?

Subject: RE: Ever seen a dead-man switch?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:07:47 -0500
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:41, Lachniet, Mark wrote:
Umm, while that's a good idea, it also assumes that someone proactively
put such a hardware device in there.  Unless you are maybe talking about
a high-end hot-swap PCI server, plopping in a card w/out losing data
might be difficult. 

Not really. If the card is designed to be inserted into a system without
hot-plug capability (in essence, the card provides that capability),
then there is nothing proactively required by the system owner. The
examiner should be able to insert the card, power it up safely, and
start diagnostic.

I'm aware of the choice to power down or analyze the running system.
What I'm suggesting is that there is a third option. Examination of a
halted system where power (and thus memory content) remains, yet the
system is frozen where no hostile code can interfere with the analysis
or destroy data.

Regards,
Frank

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