Re: SELinux Branded USB Thumb Drives

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Dave Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/18/2012 5:22 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>>
>> On 9/18/2012 12:12 PM, David Quigley wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been thinking of putting in a bulk order for either 8GB or 16GB
>>> USB thumb drives with special SELinux branding on them. Who would be
>>> interested in participating in the bulk order? We would have to decide
>>> on a design first and then once that was done and I felt I had enough
>>> people on board I could order about 100 of them (which seems to be the
>>> minimum for some places). Nothing is definite yet as I'm just shopping
>>> around the idea.
>>
>>
>> Is that really a good idea? Given the frequency that thumb drives turn
>> up as infection vectors it seems like you're asking for trouble.
>>
> I intend on getting ones with physical write protection if I can. However I
> don't see it as being any different from the ones you get from the one of a
> million AV/Anti-malware companies out there either. I intend on using them
> for when I give a talk or teach a class and intend on collecting them at the
> end.

And maybe if you install a live Linux distro with SELinux enabled on them
before you hand them out, you just might get them back uninfected. ;-)

-kevin
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