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And 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 ago
  Are 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 ago
    You 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 ago
  Not 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 ago
    CPU 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.