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Good idea but there's quite a lot of exploits in virtual machines that let them infect the host machine too. :P So it's really pretty hard to stay safe. You cou
by Ellipsis753 13y ago
Good idea but there's quite a lot of exploits in virtual machines that let them infect the host machine too. :P
So it's really pretty hard to stay safe.
You could always run your OS from a read-only CD?
At least you'd be none-infected on each reboot.
- mikeash 13y agoUntil someone infects your BIOS, anyway.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoMy favorite is you run the browser on a different machine and you place a webcam near it that you can visit on your primary machine. Sending keystrokes and mouse moves to the browser machine using an infrared laser to create a unidirectional serial link to the machine. Air gap AND lasers, how cool is that?
- Ellipsis753 13y agoI like this idea. I guess you might get away with just sshing to a machine if you could secure that.
- sitkack 13y agoI have a more doable sketch of this, running in a guest account on a raspberry pi over xvnc. Laptop is firewalled from net, raspberry pi is booted from read only media. Would need hardware ethernet firewall between laptop and raspberry pi to only allow VNC traffic.
- M2Ys4U 13y agoTails[0] would be a good candidate for this. [0] https://tails.boum.org/ https://tails.boum.org/