cerebral odd jobs

Gizmo’s latest newsletter continues his series on portable computing security and his experience with U3 and proprietary USB program launchers. see Port-a-puter for the roadless warrior: U3 and thumbtops, portable computing and How to make a Thumbtop PC

Issue 147, 19th July, 2007

• http://techsupportalert.com/issues/back_issues.htm

Editorial

Securing USB flash drives is not quite as simple as you might hope. Simple no, but possible yes. That’s because drive encryption, one of the simplest and robust forms of protecting a PC, won’t work unless you have administrator privileges on the host PC you plug your USB drive into. This immediately rules out most hotel computers, internet cafes and other public terminals.

2.3 Flash Drive Management Systems

If you are getting into USB flash drive computing you are going to have to quickly make a decision about the approach you are going to take to managing and organizing your portable applications.

4.3 Running Linux from a USB Flash Drive

5.1 How to Improve Your Security When Using a Public Terminal (Part 3 of 4)

Last month [1] I showed you how you can enter passwords more securely using obfuscation techniques. This is fancy way of saying that when you type your password you insert and delete random letters to mask the real password. It works because most keyloggers just record a long string of characters containing the keystrokes you have entered so adding and deleting random letters makes it very hard for an attacker to work out which of the recorded keystrokes form part of your actual password.

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