Thank you Roger, a later poster in the thread used plain-text
instead of attachments.
Anyway, more on bootable business cards (as used by anti-business
people).
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Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS)
Think this through with me, let me know your mind... Hunter/Garcia
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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 09:10:50 -0700
From: Michael de Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Geoffrey Hing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techcamp] Dynebolic
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:28:44PM +0100, Geoffrey Hing wrote:
> Perhaps some people on the list have seen this before, or even developed
> on it, but it's new to me and I think it's rad. It's a GNU/Linux distro
> that boots off a CD and lets you have a clean, trusted system wherever
> you go. The website is at http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic.
Some more links:
http://rr.sans.org/linux/sec_apps.php
Explains the idea of a bootable linux cd, and how it can be used.
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Live_CD/
Here are a few more distributions
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/faq.html
Example of a distribution that fits on 'business-card-sized'
CDROM, so that it is easy to bring the CDROM in your pocket.
http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/
This software lets you build you own system based on the linux installed
on your hard-disk.
http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/
This bootable system also protects against hardware keyloggers (read
the readme to see how). I wonder if anyone in the world uses stuff
like this, and also deniable steganography like www.rubberhose.org.
But if you do, don't tell me ;)
I don't know which distribution is 'better' than any other one. I've
only used them for 'firewall on a cd' purposes, and they seem to work
great.
> Does anybody know about destroying CDs? If you're going nomad, it seems
> that you could just take a CD with this distro on it and destroy it if
> you need to.
I don't think you'd ever need to destroy a generic CD distro.
If you had any user-specific data it would be probably be better to
bring it on a floppy or (if larger) a USB pen-drive.
Michael
