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I am trying to find out what options I have to do computing more securely.
Here are two questions regarding that:
1. Can I use a boot CD, like Knoppix or WinUBCD to boot and then start the Portable Apps from a USB stick?
2. Can the Portable Apps be run from a computer booted from a boot CD and where the internal hard drive is removed?
The reason I ask this is because I live in a country where we need to protect against the authorities getting onto our hard disks and doing whatever they would do without us knowing about it.
Calle2005
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I am not sure it will work with winbucd for usb support, but you can put them on the winubcd when you make them and it will work for most of them
that I have tested. If you speak about knoppix or ubuntu or any linux live distros, then you should know that generaly speaking, portable apps are made for windows.
hundred of portable applications:
http://standalone.atspace.org/index.html
I had thought that if you use PortableApps, it leaves nothing on the host machines hard drive. If that isthe case, you could use a computer with an internal hard drive and if the Gestapo gets your machine, there would be nothing there.
Could you boot the OS from an external USB hard drive? They are not as easy to hide from corrupt authorities, but it might give you some device independence. Another idea to hide your word processing files would be to run PortableApps from a device like a Sandisk m200 MP3 player. You could listen to music on it and keep it in the open, and most people would not think that you were running wordprocessing or email software off of it. A 1 gig Sandisk Micro USB isso small you could hide it easily from Gestapo types. In any case, my question for the PortableApps community is, given this fellow's predicament, what would be left on his hard drive? If it is not too much of a risk, what country are you in?
Traces are left by even the most portable of programs in the MUI and I believe somewhere else. There is nothing you can do about this other than wiping the MUI after you're done with a computer. This is a little suspicious though.
I recommend looking into Truecrypt. It is free, open source, and portable. By placing anything questionable on an encrypted, password protected, hidden truecrypt volume using keyfiles no one will be able to prove any of the programs exist, despite records left on a computer. This would be the ultimate level of security.
Why are you resurrecting a year old topic?
(Oh, and the poster is from China, click on his username to view his profile)
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So what if he is resurrecting a year old topic? He felt that he had something to contribute and I welcome his response. Maybe there is an unwritten etiquette rule in this forum that we are not supposed to reply to an old topic. If it is that important, then old posts should be blocked automatically.
So the poster is from China. So what? As long as he shares our interest in portable applications, it shouldn't matter where he is from.
I think he just meant to answer the question about where the poster was from, it Was asked. I don't think he meant to imply (or is it infer) that there was any problem with where the poster was from.
Old posts don't bother me, but I'm not as active as most in this group.
Tim
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Thanks for the clarification Tim. I missed that there was question about where the poster came from.
Sorry for the confusion
The point I was trying to make was that there was no point in resurrecting the topic just to post that, when the topic is a year old.
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