On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Tom Buskeyt...@buskey.name wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
typical cafe has no accessible CD slot or boot button., and booting
will break their time keeping (billing ) system, so you should expect
to be evicted -- or arrested for 'hacking'
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Bill
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:43 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 08/25/2009 06:43 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
Does anybody really do this? I would have guessed drivers would be
hit-or-miss, and BIOS fiddling would often be required (I'd keep BIOS
setup locked if I ran such
You could do like that character in Cryptonomicon (a good read, BTW) who
was imprisoned in what he assumed was a TEMPEST-instrumented jail with
his laptop, so he rigged it surreptitiously to do I/O via Morse code... ;-
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If you ran such a cafe, you'd also have the user accounts locked
down so malware couldn't run in the first place.
yeah, but it's still Windows and hardware keyloggers are cheap
There ya go. Start by emailing a password to your server from your
phone. (I'd suggest a different password
I'm usually pretty paranoid about typing my passwords on any computers I
don't own. I assume most have keyloggers installed, as I've seen some
that do.
The problem is, internet cafes are really darn handy. I so rarely type
confidential material in my email but still have to disclose my password
Boot from a CD or USB key?
Of course, USB
keyboardshttp://www.gadgetlite.com/2009/08/10/video-apple-keyboard-hack-reveals/
can
be
reprogrammedhttp://slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/1658258/Apple-Keyboard-Firmware-Hack-Demonstrated
.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Bill McGonigle
On 08/25/2009 06:43 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
Does anybody really do this? I would have guessed drivers would be
hit-or-miss, and BIOS fiddling would often be required (I'd keep BIOS
setup locked if I ran such a cafe).
-Bill
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Bill McGonigleb...@bfccomputing.com wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
Does anybody really do this?
I've booted computers that aren't mine from Ubuntu media. Not a
Internet cafe, per se, but same principle.
I would have guessed drivers would be hit-or-miss
