[olug] Weird Internal HDD Question

[Jason N]

This is an interesting idea, but won't get around hardware keyloggers, but I'm not sure how much of a concern those are?


---- Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote: 
Unplugging the Internal HDD is a good idea but not an option.

The idea is to get trust on untrustworthy systems by bypassing the HDD in a
liveCD environment.
But when the  "secure kiosk" session is over, reboot and take the CD with
you.  Think of a hotel
lobby kiosk (with cdrom boot enabled).  when you're done, someone else needs
it.

Hope that helps.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>wrote:

> will you be deploying them?  could you just unplug/remove the hdd?
>
> is there a wyse-type dumb terminal that could boot from usb?  (but may have
> the same writability issue)
>
>
> -barry
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2011 9:56 AM, Chad Homan wrote:
>
>> So I working on a secure kiosk style liveCD and I want to disable access
>> to
>> the internal HDD.
>> I am thinking of hacking /bin/mount a bit to exit it "sda" is attempted as
>> a
>> device to mount.
>>
>> Short of re-compiling the kernel, any other suggestions.  Personally I
>> would
>> like a kernel flag
>> passed at boot by grub during the boot.  but my googleFU is weak this
>> morning.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Chad Homan<choman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  Seem like good odds
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hurley, Rod<RHurley at tenaska.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  85 to 1
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Chad Homan
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:45 AM
>>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>>>> Subject: [olug] Weird Internal HDD Question
>>>>
>>>> Hey all
>>>>
>>>> strange question time.
>>>>
>>>> What are the odds of an internal HDD being referenced as something other
>>>> than sda in today's world?
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