Eh? Setting a flash drive to *write-only* would fix this how? Why would
anyone want to make a flash drive *write-only*?
-Dan
Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory
back in the late 70s or early 80s?
I think they developed it for the NSA.
In a silly and useless off topic thread ...
I found the reference. It was Signetics, not NS.
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/jargon300/write-onlymemory.html
write-only memory: n. The obvious antonym to `read-only
memory'. Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless
chain of approvals required of component specifications, during
which no actual checking seemed to occur, an engineer at Signetics
once created a specification for a write-only memory and included
it with a bunch of other specifications to be approved. This
inclusion came to the attention of Signetics management only
when regular customers started calling and asking for pricing
information. Signetics published a corrected edition of the data
book and requested the return of the `erroneous' ones. Later,
around 1974, Signetics bought a double-page spread in "Electronics"
magazine's April issue and used the spec as an April Fools' Day
joke. Instead of the more conventional characteristic curves, the
25120 "fully encoded, 9046 x N, Random Access, write-only-memory"
data sheet included diagrams of "bit capacity vs. Temp.",
"Iff vs. Vff", "Number of pins remaining vs. number of socket
insertions", and "AQL vs. selling price". The 25120 required a
6.3 VAC VFF supply, a +10V VCC, and VDD of 0V, +/- 2%.
[ On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 04:50:27 (-0000), Joseph T. Klein wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory
back in the late 70s or early 80s?I think they developed it for the NSA.
Not long ago I finished reading one of Stephen R. Donaldson's "The Gap"
series (the second -- I don't know if I'll bother with more of them)
where secure write-only "core" is said to be the foundation for
interstellar security. Basically it's for keeping an unbreakable and
unmodifiable record of all ship functions and communications. Only
authorised police have keys to read it, but it supposed to be physically
unalterable once written. Of course it turns out what's written to it
is not quite so indelible as most people are lead to believe.... 
They did but when you mentioned this I went to look for it and haven't
found it. .
As I recall this was infact for the nsa but I don't remember the exact
application.