[Fedora-livecd-list] need advice on stick

[ToddAndMargo]

On 10/02/2014 01:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 15:09:47 -0500,
>   "Roger Baran, Owner" <rapidrecoveryit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can also run Fedora from a USB with persistence, but you will not be
>> able to have it encrypted. Live media is adaptive to the hardware
>> environment and installed media is 'set' based upon the hardware present
>> at install time. So, if you installed it with encryption to a USB, then
>> you would/should only run it on machines that have *exteremely* similar
>> hardware. That is the advantage of Live media -- universality.
>
> There is a way to do that. livecd-iso-to-disk will allow you to encrypt
> /home, which might be good enough. If you are careful to only use the
> overlay for updates (and not sensitive configuration) and don't use
> swap, then that should protect you from people extracting information
> from your live usb. (It won't protect you from someone getting physical
> access, making changes and then getting you to use it.)
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Hi Roger and Bruno,

    Thank you!

-T

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