On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:15:15 -0800
Mark <
mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.