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IF he was serious he would be burning CDs/DVDs instead of using a read-write USB stick. It is tedious, but blank media is cheap and there is precedent (that I'
by Amadou 13y ago
IF he was serious he would be burning CDs/DVDs instead of using a read-write USB stick. It is tedious, but blank media is cheap and there is precedent (that I'm sure Bruce is aware of): The DoD's own (classified) SIPRNet was infiltrated via a flash-drive based virus back in 2008.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406154.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08...
- 205guy 13y agoI kinda thought the same thing about flash-drive viruses, and why Bruce wasn't using CDs/DVDs instead. Then I realized if he was really serious, he wouldn't say what he's really using, and he'd have a USB honeypot plugged into his network-facing computer.
- Groxx 13y agoNamed "Iocane Powder" of course.
- officialjunk 13y ago"i'd bet my life on it..."
- jasomill 13y agoNote that he didn't say what software he's running on the new air-gapped computer. The difference between locking down one air-gapped PC running only software required for encryption and locking down the entire network of PCs running the wide variety of software required to do everything everyone needs to do on the SIPRnet is huge.
- enneff 13y agoAnother approach might be to set up an old-fashioned serial link between the machines. It's easy enough to observe and audit all the traffic that passes through a serial cable.
- darkarmani 13y agoSD cards have a physical switch you can flip for read-only.
- ohWhatever 13y agoYeah and my old Intel 486 Gateway 2000 had a Turbo button. What's your point?
- simoncion 13y agoThe switch is electrical and advisory. The SD card reader is free to ignore it. Search for "Bootable SD Card Method" here: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Prepare_your_SD_card http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Prepare_your_SD_card (I have a Canon camera that runs CHDK. Those instructions work, and the camera can write to the SD card.)
- nitrogen 13y agoThe SD card switch is actually read by an external physical sensor (a tiny button like the write-protect buttons inside of ancient 3.5" floppy drives), at least on most SD cards. I had an SD card whose switch wasn't quite thick enough to trigger the writability sensor of an SD card reader, so I had to wrap it in tape.
- nwh 13y agoIn a completely unrelated area, you just saved me a pile of effort and time with that tape trick. Kudos.