Secure, Portable, Virtual Privacy Machine

Posted by michael on Thursday October 21, 2004 @06:25AM from the zero-knowledge-tried-and-failed dept.

solcity writes "Looks like an online privacy company, Metropipe, are planning to release a secure linux virtual privacy machine that runs from a USB stick. The image contains a pre-release of their new 'Metropipe Tunneler' product and also contains Firefox, and Thunderbird with the Enigmail/gpg extension. Looks like the whole thing is based on damnsmalllinux and uses qemu to boot on Windows or Linux without any installation or configuration. Very interesting use of qemu and damnsmalllinux, and all 100% GPL."

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Re:And yet... by garcia · 2004-10-21 06:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I haven't yet finished the download so I can't tell. They do seem to promote their anonymous proxy though and that's what worries me.

That aside...

Sure, it's nice to have your cookies and whatnot stored on a USB key but that data is still traveling to your USB device via their hardware. It's NOT secure and they shouldn't infer that it is.