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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: coglac on April 18, 2013, 03:24 pm

Title: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: coglac on April 18, 2013, 03:24 pm
What are people thoughts about buying one of these off the road? Is there any risk of it being supplied by LE or someone looking to rob you?
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: Devoidest on April 18, 2013, 03:41 pm
What are these? usb memory + os embedded? I think a secure livecd like an openbsd based one maybe be good as well
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Post by: z3r0h3r0 on April 18, 2013, 03:46 pm
sounds awefully fishy to me :-/
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: ixcc on April 18, 2013, 04:37 pm
Buy a cheap 8GB usb thumb drive and put Ubuntu on it and encrypt it. There should be lots of guides on the internet about this stuff.
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: Tripazoid on April 18, 2013, 04:43 pm
Always better to roll your own. Then you know what's in it :)
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: scout on April 18, 2013, 04:45 pm
There's no reason to buy that kind of thing here or anywhere else -- make it yourself.  Buy a usb and install Tails on it, and use TrueCrypt for hidden volume encryption of the usb and/or any sensitive info. 

Buying it "premade" from anyone is risky because you can't know for sure what they put on it.  It's not safe.  There are tons of guides available, as ixcc mentioned, and it would be FAR safer to make one yourself.
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: Tripazoid on April 18, 2013, 04:50 pm
I'm using Truecrypt.... great software. But what's "Tails"?
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: jamseyboy1 on April 21, 2013, 01:52 am
much better to create your own
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
Post by: small time on April 21, 2013, 01:58 am
I have never tried Tails but Liberte was pretty easy to set up for me. Just do it yourself to be safest. There was a write up around here somewhere on setting up Liberte.
Title: Re: usb bootable darknet machine?
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