On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.] >
For me, when it's a work computer that has a Windows-only installation on it, running Ubuntu from a Live CD is the only allowable way to use Linux on the computer. Mark
