would be needed to be able to do any real do you use additional USB memory sticks with encrypted file systems to store the files you’re working with? If so, I’d think an adversary could still infect a file with something that could exploit a file parser, or drop non-persistent malware to exfiltrate encryption keys or weaken the encryption by ruining the entropy pool or something, assuming the machine isn’t air-gapped. What I don’t really understand is how such a system can be useful without any writable storage I’d think encrypted files, keyfiles, etc. Ap3:48 Sloane, Dave: I’m not quite sure, but I recall those “hardware switches” don’t actually prevent writes in some (most?) cases, but only signal the users desire to prevent writing, and can only be enforced in software, instead of electrically disconnecting the “write strobe” from the memory chip.Īlso I haven’t seen a write-protect switch on USB memory sticks in ages, the last one I had with a switch was probably 256MB…
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