Generating and storeing keys on usb pen

Andrew Berg bahamut at digital-signal.net
Mon Apr 30 19:12:31 CEST 2007


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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> ... Moral of the story: be very careful where you go plugging your
> USB tokens into, recognize they are infection vectors and infection
>  targets, recognize they can be compromised, and act accordingly.
Or better yet, use some good security practices like setting up a
default-deny system (on one's own computer), especially if running
Windows. Most non-exclusive computers (i.e. machines that are shared
among, say, a group of employees, or a school/university/work machine,
as well as public terminals) have adequate protection (like not
allowing root or near-root access to just anyone, or something like
Clean Slate (the computers at my school allowed admin access, but the
hard drives were rewritten upon reboot unless the program was
disabled)). As far as I know, malware is pretty harmless without
elevated privileges.
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