On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:27 AM, John Summerfield wrote:

> Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>> Perhaps I misused the word "kiosk" and was not clear describing the
>> role of
>> the nodes. They will not be on my network. They will be on someone
>> else's
>> network (some other company, or some other organization). The nodes
>> will be
>> providing network services (Custom databases, accessible through a
>> browser),
>> sometimes some ldap services.
>> Again, the people around the machine should use it as intended, no
>> one
>> should be able to steal/mount the disk to dump data (at least not
>> easily)
>
> I think we need better information about the problem you're trying
> to solve.

Agreed. If your main worry is that the hardware will be stolen, cheap
hardware abounds in the marketplace. I'd not invest heavily in systems
that aren't going to be monitored - probably better to treat them as
throwaways if you aren't going to lock them in some form of cabinet.
And don't rule out hardware terminal servers like those available from
HP starting at $200.

If it's the data that you are worried about, the fact that you have to
ask how best to protect it should tell you that doing it with local
storage is probably a very bad idea.

jef

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