But don't some LIveCDs write to swap space on the local hard drive IF they see one?
Adrian On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Greg Norcie <g...@norcie.com> wrote: > If you're on a Live CD, everything should stay in the RAM, unless you > really jump through hoops to write to the HD. In that case (barring a > cold boot attack, which is far fetched), any data you downloaded will be > gone. > > On a normal PC anything saved or opened is stored on the HD though. Live > CDs are special, everything runs in RAM. > -- > Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com) > GPG key: 0x1B873635 > > On 11/11/12 3:19 PM, Dan Hughes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick > > and downloading files (.PDFs, S&M vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but > > not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or > > downloaded being written to the HD at all? > > > > If TBB does leave > > 'content evidence' on the HD, other than Tails are there any easy ways > > (i.e. for the technically challenged) to run Tor (TBB) from within a > > liveCD or VM to prevent this? > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-talk mailing list > > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." ~ W. Somerset Maugham "The ability to Google can be a serviceable substitute for technical knowledge." ~ Adrian D. Crenshaw _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
