data remanence

[Kalevi Nyman]

Why don't you use a simple CD-ROM to boot your computer? Don't even try
to install anything into your new hard-drive!

If that is not secure enough, what is? One can have several diffenrent
CD-ROMs with games, OpenOffice, Only Linux OS with TOR but nothing else
e.t.c.

Is this a secret?

/K
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Michael Holstein wrote:
>> There are methods (and they are used) to read data from a overwritten
>> disk.
> 
> Has anyone tried creating a (ro) flash-boot linux system for TOR with
> all the (rw) stuff mounted in RAM ?
> 
> Such a device would raise the bar quite a bit, no? (AFIK, there is no
> data remanence problem with DRAM .. unless $they can stop the clock and
> keep power applied).
> 
> (seeing the $agency come in with a UPS and trying to splice the A/C
> without shutting it off, and then carrying out the server on battery
> power conjures up memories of a certian Seinfield episode).
> 
> /mike.
> 
> 

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Kalevi Nyman
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