[olug] Weird Internal HDD Question

[Chad Homan]

Yea, not to concerned with keyloggers at the moment

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:

> This is an interesting idea, but won't get around hardware keyloggers, but
> I'm not sure how much of a concern those are?
>
>
> ---- Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unplugging the Internal HDD is a good idea but not an option.
>
> The idea is to get trust on untrustworthy systems by bypassing the HDD in a
> liveCD environment.
> But when the  "secure kiosk" session is over, reboot and take the CD with
> you.  Think of a hotel
> lobby kiosk (with cdrom boot enabled).  when you're done, someone else
> needs
> it.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com
> >wrote:
>
> > will you be deploying them?  could you just unplug/remove the hdd?
> >
> > is there a wyse-type dumb terminal that could boot from usb?  (but may
> have
> > the same writability issue)
> >
> >
> > -barry
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/28/2011 9:56 AM, Chad Homan wrote:
> >
> >> So I working on a secure kiosk style liveCD and I want to disable access
> >> to
> >> the internal HDD.
> >> I am thinking of hacking /bin/mount a bit to exit it "sda" is attempted
> as
> >> a
> >> device to mount.
> >>
> >> Short of re-compiling the kernel, any other suggestions.  Personally I
> >> would
> >> like a kernel flag
> >> passed at boot by grub during the boot.  but my googleFU is weak this
> >> morning.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Chad Homan<choman at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>  Seem like good odds
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hurley, Rod<RHurley at tenaska.com>
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  85 to 1
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf
> Of
> >>>> Chad Homan
> >>>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:45 AM
> >>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> >>>> Subject: [olug] Weird Internal HDD Question
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey all
> >>>>
> >>>> strange question time.
> >>>>
> >>>> What are the odds of an internal HDD being referenced as something
> other
> >>>> than sda in today's world?
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