Re: Media Write Protection / Crypto Devices / BadUSB - #OpenFabs #OpenHW

2018-10-14 Thread Mirimir
On 10/13/2018 10:50 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> But write-once CDs are pretty safe, I think. No? > > In customary use, probably, far more than any of the formerly > mentioned non hardware write protectable devices. > > To be sure you'd need to use it in a old drive that has no > writing

Re: Media Write Protection / Crypto Devices / BadUSB - #OpenFabs #OpenHW

2018-10-13 Thread grarpamp
>> There is never "no" disk, just a matter of which ones >> are plugged into the box, physically, or remotely. > using USB ... is using an attached disk, ie: a read-write [block device], that can be trivially written to by / through the kernel driver interfaces or in the raw. Unless it has a

Re: Media Write Protection / Crypto Devices / BadUSB - #OpenFabs #OpenHW

2018-10-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 08:35:09PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > On 10/13/2018 08:42 AM, Mirimir wrote: > >> There is never "no" disk, just a matter of which ones > >> are plugged into the box, physically, or remotely. > > > > OK, I should have said "unless there _is_ no disk, as there _can be_ in

Re: Media Write Protection / Crypto Devices / BadUSB - #OpenFabs #OpenHW

2018-10-13 Thread Steve Kinney
On 10/13/2018 08:42 AM, Mirimir wrote: >> There is never "no" disk, just a matter of which ones >> are plugged into the box, physically, or remotely. > > OK, I should have said "unless there _is_ no disk, as there _can be_ in > Tails". I've run Tails (and my own LiveCDs) on diskless machines.

Re: Media Write Protection / Crypto Devices / BadUSB - #OpenFabs #OpenHW

2018-10-13 Thread Mirimir
On 10/12/2018 11:56 PM, grarpamp wrote: This is the use case for Tails. . . . [T]here are no writes to storage, unless users configure [otherwise] . . . . > >> Sure, but this isn't a _Tor_ issue. It's just about Tor browser, which >> is just (heavily) modified Firefox. And although I'm