Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:36:23 +1300
Richard Tindall wrote:
"Kiosk" PC setup options may already have the security sorted out to
support commercial responsibility, but I'm not so sure about that yet.
Hold on, are we talking here about the ability for the owner to
compromise his customer's security,
That sounds dubious, and hard to justify supporting under any circumstance,
or the ability of one customer to
compromise other customer's security?
which makes this what we need the ability to guarantee against.
Take a look at the history of the thread, I am not sure we are all
talking about the same thing at all!
We seem to be now. It's only the perspective that has changed, from that
of netcafe client to that of netcafe owner (support), which brings it
straight back to ensuring the netcafe client's privacy.
Anyway Steve postulated the answer, read only distro with a reboot after each
user. The only reason not to pull the plug on any OS is unfinished
work being unsaved and cached disk accesses not being written back to
disk properly. If you are writing nothing to disk there is no bother.
True. No hard drive at all is a great idea (reduced box cost). No
problems with reiserfs! ;-)
I guess if you are running an internet cafe and fail to spot someone
prising open a keyboard and installing a keylogger, then you're in
trouble anyway.
[I believe they can be attached to the cable too?]
For a read only (CD) approach see here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7127
Good link, thanks.
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Richard Tindall
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