Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive

Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by ryan-c on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:19PM (#2819222)

That really doesn't protect the device from an infected system - it can just remount it rw. You need a hardware write blocker to protect against a malicious system.

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by overshard on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:05AM (#2821781)

You don't need a hardware write blocker, the beauty of "burning" an ISO to a thumb drive is that the ISO format doesn't allow writes. There is no way at all to write to it unless you rewrite the drive itself in which case it becomes fairly obvious.

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