On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:15:15 -0800 Mark <mamar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > > > > > For people really concerned with their security in public wifi spots, > > perhaps the best I can recommend is: just run off of a live CD. It's really > > a great security policy once you get used to it being somewhat slower; if > > you can get suspend-to-RAM working, you needn't even worry about longish > > boot times (which are fairly short with the recent Ubuntus anyway). Of > > course, even with a live CD you should be careful with sensitive data such > > as e-mail accounts, online passwords and all the other stuff. > > > > This is a great idea; I do this when traveling with a work laptop, booting > Ubuntu off a live usb stick. With the 10.10 release the boot time is > unbelievably fast. There is a way to make the usb media a "persistent" > installation which allows you to save preferences, etc. to the media so upon > next boot you aren't reset to defaults. I myself haven't done that but > there is probably plenty of discussion on the topic at the Ubuntu forums if > it interests you.
A live CD will only help for the problem of a rogue public computer - insofar as you're using your own laptop, why would a live CD add any security? [And if you don't trust your own computer, you should be using a live CD even when browsing from a secure network.] Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110123002323.42e1ff1c.cele...@gmail.com
