[plug] Computing without a trace...

[hooker at iinet.net.au]

Quoting Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au>:

> Imagine you work in a job where your work is so confidential that you
> don't use a word-processor and only write notes and burn them when
> you're done.
> 
> Now imagine that your hand-writing is pretty poor.
> 
> Can anyone see anything wrong with introducing Knoppix, booted from CD,
> no swap space, only running from RAM, to run a word-processor, to type
> the note, to print it out?
> 
> Apart from someone sitting on the other side of the wall with a receiver
> to read your screen, does anyone see any problems?

I'd guess that the difficulty would be convincing *them* that the system is 
secure. Places like that tend to carry paranoia to an art-form. Tempest 
screening is easy, if expensive.

Hook