On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Klistvud
<quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
For people really concerned with their security in public wifi spots, perhaps the best I can recommend is: just run off of a live CD. It's really a great security policy once you get used to it being somewhat slower; if you can get suspend-to-RAM working, you needn't even worry about longish boot times (which are fairly short with the recent Ubuntus anyway). Of course, even with a live CD you should be careful with sensitive data such as e-mail accounts, online passwords and all the other stuff.
This is a great idea; I do this when traveling with a work laptop, booting Ubuntu off a live usb stick. With the 10.10 release the boot time is unbelievably fast. There is a way to make the usb media a "persistent" installation which allows you to save preferences, etc. to the media so upon next boot you aren't reset to defaults. I myself haven't done that but there is probably plenty of discussion on the topic at the Ubuntu forums if it interests you.
Mark