Romain BERGE wrote:
Hey list,
I am planning buying a laptop. I would like to install a hardened
(workstation) profile on it.
Which hardware features/components should I take care of ? (to be the
most compatible with hardened) In the opposite, are there some
hardware components/brand to avoid ?
Thanks
Went through a similar exercise a few years ago; concluded that one:
- first chooses the laptop that meets his needs (I wanted a 2 pounder
with good screen and graphics to carry about in a back pack, with
frequent stops at hotspots)
- second googles about for linux success/failure stories about that
laptop. Gentoo has some great documentation and explanations concerning
Linux; Ubuntu has some great user lists regarding specific hardware. My
Sony was 95% Linux good to go, with detailed Ubuntu discussions about
xorg.conf.
- third if it works on Linux, it'll likely work for hardened. (this was
true for 32bit on my laptop; 64 may be different; I'll know shortly )
FWIW, IMHO a hardened profile, along with other precautions, makes a
lot of sense on a laptop as there is all sorts of mischief occurring at
anonymous, college and Saturday-afternoon hotspots - some of it quite
sophisticated due to "pen test" software. It's a wild west that you'll
not experience on your firewalled desktop.
HTH
