[TriLUG] Fun Cheap Firewall (or web/email/dns/whatever server)

[Ronald Kelley]

Probably because of their ease of portability (ie - easy to remove and plug into another device).

-Ron



On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Clay Stuckey <claystuckey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I hadn't ever
>> set up a usb thumb drive as a boot device. They are rather frowned upon in
>> the defense sector these days.
> 
> Sorry to derail, but could you explain this statement a bit? USB thumb
> drives generally are frowned upon, or thumb drives as boot devices? If
> thumb drives generally, what are the consequences if someone discovers
> you have one on your person? I'm suddenly inordinately curious.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
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Thanks,

-Ron
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com