Posted: Sat 20 Jul 2013, 11:48
Firefox Jasper. This page is fine. The previous page of this thread goes way out east to who knows where. Saludos Señor.
I agree greengeek. When I got the Puppy ISO a few weeks ago the most important problem was instantly solved from the very first boot. Since that time I've had fun poking around security sites finding out stuff I never knew existed. The savefile is encrypted despite containing nothing except system settings. The memory stick itself never resides in its slot except at boot up.greengeek wrote:I think it is also worth remembering that the internet (and router protocols) were developed to serve the purposes of the American military. Any data you send, encrypted or not, can be saved and decoded by many, many people in a variety of different organisations, everywhere throughout the data chain.
And any operating system can be hacked to include trojans, data echoing software and keyloggers that could trap your info before it even gets encrypted.
If you are wanting to hide data from your neighbour, encryption may be useful, but anything you transfer via the internet is an open book to governments, police and military establishments. If they want your data they will get it.
Hi Edwardo, thanks for the link. Very interesting readingEdwardo wrote:This for example: http://blogs.computerworld.com/19551/wi ... re_goodies
I don't have the information to know the answer, but I have read that password cracking software (and the hardware to crunch the numbers) is currently available, especially at a mil level. If a router opens a doorway for the data to be snooped then I feel confident that storage of the data and cracking of the encryption is a real possibility.government data chain bodies have found some way to magically shorten crack times from a million years? If so the router may be the culprit.
Firstly - just because the md5 matches does not mean the iso is "good". It means that the iso matches what the developer intended. So the question becomes - do you trust the developer? Some isos contain fragments of the developers personal data - usually this is a result of inexperience on the part of the person doing the remaaster / reconfigure / recompile or whatever. However it is possible that a developer could deliberately include portions of code that could have an undesirable effect. Who would know?If the ISO download from the repository is good how can the trojans etc be planted on a finalized CD? Do you trust the ISO?