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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0208260238aug26.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed Simple design computes - Hack-Resistent Servers Jon Van, Tribune staff reporter If computers that cannot be hacked revolutionize the Internet next year, you can thank two guys named Eric who were just looking to get some sleep. They come from a cyberspace neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks--where the dull folks live... Hauk and Uner, engineers used to reliable equipment, felt like they'd been dropped into an alien land once they got entangled in the World Wide Web.... Their first offering is a unique Web server built to run for months--even years--without human intervention. It has passed early government tests, and several federal agencies anxiously await servers from Bodacion Technologies Inc., the privately held Barrington-based firm founded by Hauk and Uner.... The reason their computer cannot be hacked 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....
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