USB Unsafe? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-26 15:53 (#YTR0) Still no way to write-protect a USB drive at all, right?Unless you use a finalized CDR (not rewriteable) and happen to find a device still equipped with a drive, it seems any pretense of inviobility of your portable boot medium is illusory. Yes? Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-12-26 21:41 (#YVCY) There are options, they just aren't cheap...http://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/usb_writeblocker/ Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-31 02:06 (#Z71F) Thanks as always, EV. 200,bucks, eh? Man I miss Scotch tape over the floppy notch.There's an $18 DIY version at http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-and-Effective-USB-Write-Blocker/But now I wonder if just bringing a small external CD drive would be better/easier. Maybe there's a miniCD sized reader? Nope, apparently not. Safety and paranoia take the big bucks.Hmm another approach is imaging more or less disposable 512MB-2GB sticks and just tossing or possibly refloormatting later.... Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-01-01 07:11 (#ZA9W) They still make a few USB flash thumb drives with write-protect switches:http://amazon.com/Kanguru-SS3/dp/B008OGNM8E/And you can mount the devices read-only, or otherwise disable writing in software:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/registry-hack-to-disable-writing-to-usb-drives/Not perfect, like a write-blocker, but probably usable, and much better than nothing.
Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-12-26 21:41 (#YVCY) There are options, they just aren't cheap...http://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/usb_writeblocker/ Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-31 02:06 (#Z71F) Thanks as always, EV. 200,bucks, eh? Man I miss Scotch tape over the floppy notch.There's an $18 DIY version at http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-and-Effective-USB-Write-Blocker/But now I wonder if just bringing a small external CD drive would be better/easier. Maybe there's a miniCD sized reader? Nope, apparently not. Safety and paranoia take the big bucks.Hmm another approach is imaging more or less disposable 512MB-2GB sticks and just tossing or possibly refloormatting later.... Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-01-01 07:11 (#ZA9W) They still make a few USB flash thumb drives with write-protect switches:http://amazon.com/Kanguru-SS3/dp/B008OGNM8E/And you can mount the devices read-only, or otherwise disable writing in software:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/registry-hack-to-disable-writing-to-usb-drives/Not perfect, like a write-blocker, but probably usable, and much better than nothing.
Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-31 02:06 (#Z71F) Thanks as always, EV. 200,bucks, eh? Man I miss Scotch tape over the floppy notch.There's an $18 DIY version at http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-and-Effective-USB-Write-Blocker/But now I wonder if just bringing a small external CD drive would be better/easier. Maybe there's a miniCD sized reader? Nope, apparently not. Safety and paranoia take the big bucks.Hmm another approach is imaging more or less disposable 512MB-2GB sticks and just tossing or possibly refloormatting later.... Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-01-01 07:11 (#ZA9W) They still make a few USB flash thumb drives with write-protect switches:http://amazon.com/Kanguru-SS3/dp/B008OGNM8E/And you can mount the devices read-only, or otherwise disable writing in software:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/registry-hack-to-disable-writing-to-usb-drives/Not perfect, like a write-blocker, but probably usable, and much better than nothing.
Re: USB Unsafe? (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-01-01 07:11 (#ZA9W) They still make a few USB flash thumb drives with write-protect switches:http://amazon.com/Kanguru-SS3/dp/B008OGNM8E/And you can mount the devices read-only, or otherwise disable writing in software:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/registry-hack-to-disable-writing-to-usb-drives/Not perfect, like a write-blocker, but probably usable, and much better than nothing.