But InTether's most intriguing features are those intended to rebuff hackers. To begin with, Friedman says, the system incorporates 11 layers of security defenses. “All have to be successfully navigated” in order to hack the system. “But one piece does nothing but check continually the integrity of the other pieces,” he says. “If you could disable a certain piece, within milliseconds our system would know.”
Via my dog wants to be on the radio, [1] Copy This! Can `Military' Technology Beat Digital Piracy?' [2]
Nice and all, but what if the operating system in question (and in this case it's Microsoft Windows obviously) is running on a virtual machine? Like under, say, VMWare? [3]
[1] http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/weblog/