Hi, We didn't reach a conclusion on this topic. The page on pcmcia is still tagged "discuss".
Issue: 32bit PCMCIA gets DMA. It is thus usable by an adversary for external bus memory forensics on a running Tails. Question: we now have to discuss what usability vs. security balance we want. Ideas: * If a firewire card was inserted into the slot and the bus is active, pop up a dialog and ask "hey, you want to use firewire/etc.?" * disable these buses by default, allow opt-in through tails-greeter to enable * ask that users assert they want to use this or that bus, and make the assertion bind to a single device, rather than all devices blindly * de-activate PCMCIA and ExpressCard on systems that don't have any PCMCIA or ExpressCard devices after running for 5 minutes. This is going to byte some users, but probably only the first time. This is related to [[https://tails.boum.org/todo/disable_expresscard__36__]] Please give your thoughts. Cheers --
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