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Perhaps this would be the sort of situation where you boot from read-only USB stick, or LiveCD.
by antihero 13y ago
Perhaps this would be the sort of situation where you boot from read-only USB stick, or LiveCD.
- alexkus 13y agoFine, but how would you verify your read-only USB stick or LiveCD before use? Theoretically someone could sneak and replace the LiveCD with one that looks identical but is infected with the required malware[1]. Carrying it on you, or locking it in the safe in the room[2], might mitigate that I suppose. 1. Sneak in once, steal a copy of the USB/LiveCD contents, go away and create a new version infected with malware, sneak in again and swap them over. 2. Not really safe as one previous link on HN showed.
- mikeash 13y agoThis seems like something where Secure Boot, with user-provided keys, would really be handy. Create a key pair and tell your computer to only boot from stuff signed with your own key, then it will refuse to boot from a tampered USB stick or CD.
- patrickk 13y agoAFAIK, that can be somewhat problematic for windows. Why windows you ask? Most poker clients are windows only. It's probably possible to boot windows from a LiveCD, but when I looked at it in the past, it wasn't straightforward.
- nikcub 13y agoStars and Tilt are both native to Windows and OS X and both can run on Linux with Wine.