>I'm not clear on it not being possible to have selected hardware access (or
>decent emulated hardware access*) without loss of security, apart from the
>security from that point outwards, rather than inwards. Someone may wish to
>educate me (and presumably others here) on this point.
>
>       Russell McMahon

It is possible! At least the serial port access and, for instance, under XP.

I have faced the problem and had to write a serial port programmer that
controls RS232 signals. It works.

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