Patent ID: 8656190

Claim:
A computing device comprising: a processor; and memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising: detecting a security violation in a computing device; determining whether the computing device is in a field mode of operation or a manufacture mode of operation; when the computer device is in the field mode of operation: ensuring that access to a cryptographically locked one-time-settable software repository stored in the computing device is exclusively limited to a highest privileged software when the computing device is in the field mode of operation; calling the highest privileged software to access the cryptographically locked one-time-settable software repository stored in the computing device; unlocking the locked software repository; recording information pertaining to the security violation in the unlocked software repository; relocking the unlocked software repository; and storing the relocked software repository in the computing device, wherein the recorded information pertaining to the security violation cannot be unrecorded; and when the computing device is in the manufacture mode of operation, allowing recorded information pertaining to the security violation to be unrecorded.