I was given a Tails 1.0 USB drive by someone. I have no reason to distrust this person, but I also have no particular reason to trust them.
I will not be using the drive, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I could verify the integrity of it. I believe the drive was made on Windows with the Universal USB Installer. I created another USB drive using the UUI on Windows and checked the md5sum of all files on both keys. Everything checked out except for /uui/ldlinux.sys I thought that maybe this file was dynamically generated so I formatted the usb drive I made and tried again. I got the same md5sum as before. I was doing this on Windows 8, so I booted up a Windows 7 computer, formatted the usb drive I made and created another. Again, I got the same md5sum for ldlinux.sys as I had on all the drives I made. A sum that is different than the ldlinux.sys on the USB drive I was given. Is there any way to explain this discrepancy? Would someone with ill intentions be able to harm the integrity of Tails by modifying \uui\ldlinux.sys and nothing else? Is there any way I could view the differences between the two ldlinux.sys files?
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