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Most secure linux equivalent to Shadow Defender for live CD-like nonpersistency with no traces left (or traces that are encrypted)

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Virtualisation can do reasonably secure nonpersistent drives. Would rather not rely on this alone but also have a host that is nonpersistent too. A live DVD as a host leaves no traces and is physically impossible to permanently infect/own … Continue reading Most secure linux equivalent to Shadow Defender for live CD-like nonpersistency with no traces left (or traces that are encrypted)→

Tales from the Sysadmin: Dumped into the Grub Command Line

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Today I have a tale of mystery, of horror, and of hope. The allure of a newer kernel and packages was too much to resist, so I found myself upgrading to Fedora 30. All the packages had downloaded, all that was left was to let DNF reboot the machine and …read more

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Would it add security to set a GRUB password if HDDs are encrypted and UEFI settings can be opened anyway?

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So I’m using Debian 9.1 with KDE and have my hard drives encrypted. Now I’m wondering whether to additionally add a GRUB password as described here.

Would that make sense? As the hard drives are encrypted nobody should be ab… Continue reading Would it add security to set a GRUB password if HDDs are encrypted and UEFI settings can be opened anyway?→