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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by darkarmani on Friday September 13, 2013 @10:13PM (#6384361)
SD cards have a physical switch you can flip for read-only.
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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by simoncion on Saturday September 14, 2013 @01:09AM (#6384726)
The switch is electrical and advisory. The SD card reader is free to ignore it.

Search for "Bootable SD Card Method" here: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Prepare_your_SD_card (I have a Canon camera that runs CHDK. Those instructions work, and the camera can write to the SD card.)

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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by nitrogen on Saturday September 14, 2013 @02:32AM (#6384884)
The SD card switch is actually read by an external physical sensor (a tiny button like the write-protect buttons inside of ancient 3.5" floppy drives), at least on most SD cards. I had an SD card whose switch wasn't quite thick enough to trigger the writability sensor of an SD card reader, so I had to wrap it in tape.
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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by nwh on Saturday September 14, 2013 @01:37PM (#6386351)
In a completely unrelated area, you just saved me a pile of effort and time with that tape trick. Kudos.
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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by ohWhatever on Saturday September 14, 2013 @12:35AM (#6384675)
Yeah and my old Intel 486 Gateway 2000 had a Turbo button. What's your point?
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