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I recently gave my enterprising son a Tails USB after learning about his school’s ridiculous blocking policies. The only condition was that he should sit with m
by james-redwood 5y ago
I recently gave my enterprising son a Tails USB after learning about his school’s ridiculous blocking policies. The only condition was that he should sit with me for a few minutes each evening for me to teach him on a conceptual level how things like an OS, BIOS, Tor, etc work.
- vondur 5y agoI would hope most school computers would be set to not allow non IT staff to boot from external devices.
- gen3 5y agoBack in highschool I had an old USB drive with a Linux install, it worked fine. I also had a copy of tor browser, so I could watch YouTube. Good times. I learned quite a bit about networking and windows security.
- 0xedd 5y ago
- irrational 5y agoSeriously. My corporation has made it impossible for us to use USB sticks, external hard drives, etc. on company computers. Well, if you go before a panel and prove why you need one, they will give you a hardened one that you can use. But you really have to have a good excuse.
- idiotsecant 5y agomine does the same, but boot from USB still works fine. It's security theater for the bosses who don't know the difference. The more annoyed everyone is the more the bosses think we have 'good' security.
- irrational 5y agoOurs is different. If you so much as plug in a USB stick you will be contacted by security with minutes and your boss and their boss will be involved.
- tata71 5y agolol