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Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

Subject: Bootable CD w/OS for firewall
From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Date: Wed Sep 15 09:34:01 2004
In-reply-to: <20040915131257.GR30287@server.sunrise-linux.com> (jjohnson@sunrise-linux.com's message of "Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:12:57 -0400")
References: <41475A36.4090309@ttlexceeded.com> <20040915130002.65742.qmail@web61203.mail.yahoo.com> <20040915131257.GR30287@server.sunrise-linux.com>

miah <jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com> writes:

> advantage being if you get owned, you burn a new cd and reboot.  Since
> its all a read-only filesystem that loads into memory anything an
> attacker does is temporary.

Except when they compromise your (ssh/ipsec) keys...

> -miah

-derek

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