10 Best Security Live CD Distros

Ant writes to tell us Darknet has a summary of the ten best LiveCD distributions dealing with security. With links to download and a little information about each one." An great overview of some handy tools, some you know and probably a few you don't.

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RO-OS

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One of the best features of a secure Live CD is that the read-only media prevents attacks from writing to the stored OS (on CD). I'd love to see a virtualization system that reloads the OS from the CD every so often (hours, minutes, seconds) and switches all processes to the new, more trustworthy instance.

Maybe a safer system will just reload a single watchdog instance from the CD, which checks itself against the other running instances.

Any difference would send an alarm out of the system.

Of course, the virtualization layer itself needs authenticity checks. But that might be possible against a CD image, and in any case would be no less secure than without this system I'm describing.