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Tinfoil Hat Linux

tinfoilhat.shmoo.com — It started as a secure, single floppy, bootable Linux distribution for storing PGP keys and then encrypting, signing and wiping files. At some point it became an exercise in over-engineering.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 16, 2006

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  • skunkman62, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22whats a floppy?
  • MrEcho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Got to love thouse security nuts.
  • Llan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16The name is awesome! Ironic, cute and says everything about what it is! Perfect!
  • traherom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Er... digg cut me off before I could edit it. Digg that comment down, as I'm wrong.

    It's actually a tiny distro which an on-screen keyboard. It also has very little actual functionality, which makes it _very_ secure. :)
  • ZenMasterJG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Putting it on a CD wouldn't be especially difficult...
  • lordmetroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I find it rather interesting, after all why shouldn't one protect oneself from intrusion in ones personal life when one can so easily?
  • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Erm, so it's more security along the lines of "cut your computer in half"?
    For slightly more usable security, http://sourceforge.net/projects/anonym-os/ - Although I'm not sure if it has a virtual keyboard (for hardware keyloggers)
    Anyway.. I can't really think of a partical use for this.. If you want to encrypt files and such, surely you'd only store them on a trusted computer, not one you suspect keyloggers (espically hardware ones) have been put on, in which case such a paranoid OS would be useless..
    - Ben
  • Keloran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6that is a major problem, in 1 year (although most new machines now dont) all new machines wont have floppy drives, so this method is going to be useless
  • toran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Load it on a usb drive and boot from that. There's no need to restrict yourself to a floppy.
  • zoolap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry guys - didn't get enough time to edit - the above prog is windows based - but is useful if you have no floppy drives but are running windows somewhere.
  • zoolap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've used this virtual floppy program recently (i think it may be from free vmware components):

    http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

    Creates virtual floppies without vmware and you can edit what is on there if needed and burn to cd.
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And Tux with his tinfoil hat! http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/logo.jpg
  • haxx4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Moving it from a floppy to a CD would be wasteful. It would leave almost all of the CD blank. If it could boot from a USB drive then that would be better I think.
  • DoodlesMcPooh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dugg just for Tux wearing the ha might have to undigg when I have tried it out though!
  • basegreen, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2What happens when they add RFiD support? ;)
  • traherom, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1For those who haven't figured out what it is, they basically have a tiny distro which is interacted with through only the numlock key.

    I think. It's kinda hard to tell, as I can't use it. :)

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