Re: Tails

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 05/18/2014 05:05 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:59:31PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > Lighten up, lad and stop taking all things literally.
> >   
> Far from be being a Thought Policeman, I felt uneasy reading the OP and
> some of the replies.
>
> Back OT, someone please tell to the investigative journalist that
> using Tails or any other OS on a compromised machine is a risky choice.
> I am sure I am preaching to the choir here, but I found people who don't
> otherwise take interest in security may think that a bootable USB will
> magically shield them from, say, a hardware key-logger.
Is it possible to remotely install some kind of software onto the
BIOS chip? That's what it would seem to require, short of having
physical access to the machine.

--doug