[tor-talk] USB Sticks for Tails -> CCCamp

[Andreas Krey]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:25:37 +0000, Roman Mamedov wrote:
...
> a random anonymously bought off-the-shelf DVD drive. If the bootable OS
> verifies signatures of files it loads from the disk, then it'd have to do a
> rather sophisticated and specifically targeted for that OS "evil maid" attack.

A targeted attack against stock tails and/or similar comes to mind
as a promising target, preplanted in the firmware the drives are
delivered with. You can subvert the verification process from there.

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800