live-cd distro that writes to cd

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, William Park wrote:
> USB key will certainly change few things:
>     - embedded market -- USB will completely take over embedded market,
>       because all you need is a board with USB port, and you can boot it
>       just like your regular computer...

Already being done, quite routinely, with other flash formats.  USB keys
may make it a bit easier.

>       That is, you buy the software once for the USB key, instead of
>       buying for every machines you use...

That funny sound you hear is Microsoft having conniptions. :-)

>     - secured data transfer -- no need for encryption.  Possible
>       application might be hospitals, where in-house local transfer is
>       needed but without wireless or cable.

But now you've added the possibility of loss or theft of physical media.
(As witness occasional news stories, in a big organization, tracking and
inventory control of removable media containing sensitive information is a
big problem.  USB keys make it worse, by being so small.)  In fact, you 
*want* such data encrypted when it's stored on such a device.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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