Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

[Derek Atkins]

miah <jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com> writes:

> advantage being if you get owned, you burn a new cd and reboot.  Since
> its all a read-only filesystem that loads into memory anything an
> attacker does is temporary.

Except when they compromise your (ssh/ipsec) keys...

> -miah

-derek

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