Cheree Heppe here: The idea of a physical key sounds like a good idea. Do you know where or if this idea has been tried on computers?
I have used a Windows machine or two and various Braille note takers and I-devices in public and so far, nobody has attempted to lay hands on the devices or on me while I've been using them. I would carry a low profile bag with a cross-body strap and use my public effectively for information and assistance. Some ordinary-looking backpacks contain interior pockets which hold NewBooks, Airs and so forth. Regarding the stun gun, Mark, would you write me privately, as I have several questions. Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPhone On 14/03/2012, at 16:34, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > What would everyone here think of a device which was inserted into a USB slot > on an Air or Iphone and, when yanked out, would completely disable the > computer? > > I owned a stun gun and it had a wrist lanyard which was attached to a part of > the gun. IF the gun was yanked from your hands, the part would come out of > the back, causing the weapon to be completely inoperative. > > My idea was if a wrist lanyard were attached to a USB device which was an > encrypted key to your portable computing device, without which a password was > necessary to restore it, were yanked from the computing device via it being > snatched from you, the device would go dead. You'd still lose it, but short > of charging the case of the device itself and zapping the grabber (wouldn't > work), this would at least render the device useless until they either got > the USB key from the lanyard around your wrist or the password to restore it. > I'm curious whether anyone would use such a gadget, or whether the risks > outweigh the benefits. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
