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TAILS will detect it is running inside a VM and warn you not to do it. I know quite a few folks who are sitting on escapes for popular VM products. They are no
by dsl 13y ago
TAILS will detect it is running inside a VM and warn you not to do it.
I know quite a few folks who are sitting on escapes for popular VM products. They are not at all uncommon.
I would be absolutely shocked if the NSA's little toolkit didn't detect virtualization, pop out, and backdoor the host OS.
- justincormack 13y agoAnd if you run it on your main machine it could exploit it and mount hard drive. You need another diskless computer just for this...
- tedks 13y agoAre there any small, cheap laptops with optical drives? Another alternative is having enough 1gb usb sticks to be able to throw them away on a regular basis. Sort of like burner phones. (Personally I'm not sure I want to go so far as to buy a separate computer for private use now, but I might as well know how to do it.)
- justincormack 13y agoYou can get various flash types with read only switches, though whether these can actually stop writes I dont know. Optical drives are harder to get now, but old computers are widely available I suppose, and less traceable.
- crucini 13y agoNot just diskless, but somehow incapable of flashing the BIOS, rewriting the CPU microcode, and loading new firmware into the NICs and other peripherals.
- justincormack 13y agoCPU microcode is volatile. BIOS flash used to be jumper protected on old PCs, and many NICS you could remove the flash if you didnt want them to be bootable. Used to have some machines with zip flash sockets you could remove while the machine was running (useful for flashing linuxbios aka coreboot in the old days). Not really your modern laptop though.
- dsl 13y ago...or run with trustworthy full disk encryption.