-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:19:10AM +0100, alan c wrote: >Caroline Meeks wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Walter Bender >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> David and I will be helping set up a Sugar classroom in a Boston >>> public school that trying to make use of some old Pentium IV desktop >>> machines;
>> When schools, children's libraries, and after-school programs have >> computers and they can be changed to boot from the USB it's likely >> that the tech people will be willing to do so. >I have a passing thought - which others may already have considered >anyway. > >In principle, when booting from a device and running a linux based OS, >it is usually possible to obtain control of the host hardware somehow, >for example by use of a terminal. I trust that whatever (high?) skill >level the usb stick user has, it will not be technically possible to >damage the host system's data? I suspect that to be technically impossible to guarantee. E.g. how to ensure that the system booted from that stick is not a derivation with "evil" formatting tool added? But relevant any way to be aware of, to at least make _difficult_ to wreak havoc (or worse: be able to do damage even by accident). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjjYywACgkQn7DbMsAkQLi3EACcC14wrLqevvNDEa71Zecbe2xO qwcAnidyrHguf8K3v++cTJo61zrOgQDc =0Eew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
