Sneaky. Guess I'll be mounting / as read-only then ...
As a plus, the terminal won't be connected to a network of any sort. So cracking it won't bring any benefit but vandalism.
Let me ask a treacherous question. You want some computer for browsing some web pages stored on its disk, and you want everyone to be able to do it. Computer boots and launches web browser by itself. This needs to run for a few days at some provate place with semi-public access. Are you going to be around? Can someone boot a CD on that box? How about forgetting all about that $SECURITY. Sure, anyone can trash the box. Sure, anyone can get their ding dings trashed for it too. Recovery is as simple as: boot CD, cat somefile >/dev/hda, sync, push reset button. Or if you prepare a suitable CD, execute these instructions automatically. Give the CD to a few people there, and tell them "just boot this".
Well, the nice solution would be a live boot 'kiosk' CD, that read only the website data from the hdd (or a usb keydrive, but preferably one stashed inside the system unit to prevent theft ...)
Only things against that is the argument that 'it takes longer to boot from CD' and 'it's easier to *develop* from HDD than CD'
But otherwise, yes, you're right. There doesn't seem to be one of those, perhaps that will be an eventual output from the current exercise.
KDE Kiosk Mode HOWTO http://dot.kde.org/997748764/ is interesting, if the kiosk were to provide more than one application ...
-jim
