Comment Hasn't this been done? (Score 1) 117
Wait, didn't NEC do the same thing six years ago?
http://www.physorg.com/news1344.html
Submission + - 'Floating Bridge' Property of Water Found (physorg.com)
eldavojohn writes: "When exposed to high voltage, water does some interesting things. From the article, ' When exposed to a high-voltage electric field, water in two beakers climbs out of the beakers and crosses empty space to meet, forming the water bridge. The liquid bridge, hovering in space, appears to the human eye to defy gravity. Upon investigating the phenomenon, the scientists found that water was being transported from one beaker to another, usually from the anode beaker to the cathode beaker. The cylindrical water bridge, with a diameter of 1-3 mm, could remain intact when the beakers were pulled apart at a distance of up to 25 mm.'"
Comment Encryption? (Score 1) 121
I worked at an R & D lab and our policy was that any system (laptops mainly) that could be expected to leave the physical security of the building had to have all data encrypted. We used a program that encrypted the entire harddrive and then required a passkey in order to decrypt at boot. At the time I left they had not yet got as far as instituting such a policy for flash drives, though I expect they have by now.
This won't protect against a malicious employee or a determined attacker, but should fix the problem of data left around accidently.
This won't protect against a malicious employee or a determined attacker, but should fix the problem of data left around accidently.
