Is there a option to protect a USB stick from being infected other than flash drives with hardware protection?

I would like to protect my flash drives to being infected when I put it in another computers or devices. After some research, I found that I will not be able to reach this level of protection by using only software solutions (correct me if… Continue reading Is there a option to protect a USB stick from being infected other than flash drives with hardware protection?

Why after dd’ing ISO file to entire USB flash device, only the first partition match the ISO checksum?

I use dd to “burn” an ISO file to USB stick:

dd bs=4M if=/mnt/media/ISO/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-31-1.9.iso of=/dev/sdd conv=fdatasync status=progress

Now I can see several partitions has been created:

sdd 8… Continue reading Why after dd’ing ISO file to entire USB flash device, only the first partition match the ISO checksum?