Duncan Guy wrote: > http://www.u3.com/default.aspx > > Has anyone seen or used this ? > > looks like a way to use an xp or win2000 computer from your usb key and > leave no trace. > > might be handy for health apps or vpn access from hospitals etc. > > Duncan
I think this just runs the software from the USB memory stick - but you still use the host CPU and operating system etc - it is just that the application software code and configuration information for those apps are all read from and written back tot he USB drive. Works nicely - I use Portable OpenOffice - see http://portableapps.com/apps/office/suites/portable_openoffice - and Portable Firefox - see http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/portable_firefox - both absolutely free - on a 1GB USB stick which cost under $100 some time ago at the North Rocks shopping centre Sunday morning computer church, err, market. Both work a treat although some of the wizards in OpenOffice don't function from teh USB stick - no great problem, and soon to be fixed. However, from a security point-of-view this doesn't gain you very much as the host computer can still easily copy files to and from your USB stick without your knowledge, and can intercept all data being processed. Horst has a gizmo called a Black Dog (nothing to do with depression, it seems) which goes one (or several) better - it is a complete computer, slightly smaller than one of your patient's cigarette packs, which plugs into a host PC via USB and boots and runs a complete copy of Linux. It uses the host PC's screen, keyboard and network for communication only, but all computation takes place on the BlackDog and the host PC has no (direct, unauthorised) access to its files (cf a USB memory stick). Ideal for really secure cryptographic operations. See http://www.projectblackdog.com/ Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
