Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

[Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But don't some LIveCDs write to swap space on the local hard drive IF they
see one?

Adrian

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Greg Norcie <greg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you're on a Live CD, everything should stay in the RAM, unless you
> really jump through hoops to write to the HD. In that case (barring a
> cold boot attack, which is far fetched), any data you downloaded will be
> gone.
>
> On a normal PC anything saved or opened is stored on the HD though. Live
> CDs are special, everything runs in RAM.
> --
> Greg Norcie (greg@xxxxxxxxxx)
> GPG key: 0x1B873635
>
> On 11/11/12 3:19 PM, Dan Hughes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick
> > and downloading files (.PDFs, S&M vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but
> > not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or
> > downloaded being written to the HD at all?
> >
> > If TBB does leave
> > 'content evidence' on the HD, other than Tails are there any easy ways
> > (i.e. for the technically challenged) to run Tor (TBB)  from within a
> > liveCD or VM to prevent this?
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