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How safe is it to run portable apps on public computers?
Cyeb:
http://www.hak5.org/w/index.php/USB_Switchblade#Files_4
^ Read on it. If you search around, there's an application to hack things onto the read-only part of any u3 drive.
Except the link I provided is for recovering information on an unsuspecting user's hard drive. Fighting evil with evil? :D
steeladept:
Don't need U3 to use TrueCrypt though. Moreover, it is encrypted so that MAY prevent this even on U3.
I am no expert here, and am just throwing out ideas. Beating a properly encrypted and protected Truecrypt volume is difficult though on the best of days, and can be just this side of impossible.
Paul Keith:
I don't understand hash checkers but just hypothetically speaking are portable apps safer than say a cellphone with some encrypted device?
Technically that's like remote PC usage correct or am I mistaken? (assuming it has security apps)
oxman:
There is absolutely no way to keep your data secure (not stoled) on a USB key pluged into a public computer.
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