September 02, 2002
Computers that Can't be Hacked
Tired of battling hackers, two former Motorola engineers developed a new Web server that's touted as a more secure, reliable machine.The reason their computer cannot be hacked (registration required) and won't break down, said Hauk, is its utter simplicity. It doesn't have an operating system--the millions of lines of code that run most Internet computers--but relies instead upon a "kernel" of just 4 kilobytes of code.
The computer is stripped of bells and whistles, relinquishing some flexibility to enhance reliability. Bodacion's philosophy of "less is more" is a radical departure from the other computers that support the Internet.
Posted at September 02, 2002 05:20 PM | Technology
