09-19-2018, 08:26 AM
Excellent tutorial. I've been using Linux-on-a-stick for years, including TAILS. It can be used on a CD/DVD or a flash drive, with the flash drive being preferred these days, and just as advertised, it leaves no footprints on the host machine. What happens is you boot to the flash drive, and the computer treats it as if it were the primary drive, and treats the actual primary drive (where your actual OS resides) as if it were an external drive, just another drive connected to the machine. This means that any registry details that would normally be saved to the machine aren't - they are instead saved to the flash drive, which goes with you when you leave.
The advantage to using it on a CD/ DVD ROM is that NOTHING is saved to the disk. Once it's burned, it's burned, and nothing gets added... including browser history.
Using it on a USB stick allows it to save stuff in what is called a "persistence file", but that also allows you to add new programs to the Operating System living on the USB stick. It's a trade off.
The Russians have developed a version of Windows 7 that can also be used from a USB drive for Linux impaired folks. One of the many gifts Russia has bestowed upon the world, along with Yellow Rain and the AK family of weapons.
I've assisted folks overseas in less than friendly countries get set up on TOR and related products. I won't mention which countries in the interests of personal security, but it's good to use in countries that are overly sensitive and tend to overly censor internet use. Folks using it can punch through national firewalls and the like, and not leave tracks in whichever internet cafe they use it in. Journalists trying to get uncomfortable news out of country, citizens trying to do the same, and a few other traveling types find it useful in certain contexts. One tries to stay dangerous even when the breathing fails, and in the information age, that sometimes means assisting other folks in being dangerous - vicarious dangerousness, I suppose.
It IS a little slow, as it has to route your communications through several servers distributed around the world to hide you actual location, but there are situations where the trade-off is worth the hassle.
Fun fact: it can be installed to a flash card, which nearly all laptops and a sizeable proportion of desktop computers have a reader for nowadays. If you install it to a micro-SD card, and it accidentally falls out of the adapter just before you get caught in a search point, well, life can be a bitch for border guards sometimes, and they never even know it.
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The advantage to using it on a CD/ DVD ROM is that NOTHING is saved to the disk. Once it's burned, it's burned, and nothing gets added... including browser history.
Using it on a USB stick allows it to save stuff in what is called a "persistence file", but that also allows you to add new programs to the Operating System living on the USB stick. It's a trade off.
The Russians have developed a version of Windows 7 that can also be used from a USB drive for Linux impaired folks. One of the many gifts Russia has bestowed upon the world, along with Yellow Rain and the AK family of weapons.
I've assisted folks overseas in less than friendly countries get set up on TOR and related products. I won't mention which countries in the interests of personal security, but it's good to use in countries that are overly sensitive and tend to overly censor internet use. Folks using it can punch through national firewalls and the like, and not leave tracks in whichever internet cafe they use it in. Journalists trying to get uncomfortable news out of country, citizens trying to do the same, and a few other traveling types find it useful in certain contexts. One tries to stay dangerous even when the breathing fails, and in the information age, that sometimes means assisting other folks in being dangerous - vicarious dangerousness, I suppose.
It IS a little slow, as it has to route your communications through several servers distributed around the world to hide you actual location, but there are situations where the trade-off is worth the hassle.
Fun fact: it can be installed to a flash card, which nearly all laptops and a sizeable proportion of desktop computers have a reader for nowadays. If you install it to a micro-SD card, and it accidentally falls out of the adapter just before you get caught in a search point, well, life can be a bitch for border guards sometimes, and they never even know it.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’