Shmoocon Defensive Posture
January 15th, 2009 by Charles Gardner
As I’ve been planning for my trip to Shmoocon, I’ve been thinking through what I will and won’t be taking along. I will also follow the advise I’ve heard time & again on podcasts about taking care at security conferences. As such, I’m planning to travel much lighter than usual. I will not be carrying my laptop. I will be taking:
- My phone – Bluetooth will be off, and the wifi never is on, so that’s good. If I have to connect, 3G and mail on the phone will be primary.
- EEEPC – I just got an Asus EEEPC 1000HA, and I’ve been impressed so far. I am considering loading an alternate OS or LiveCD image to an SD card and disabling my hard drive while I’m at Shmoocon. I haven’t tested this yet, but I’m hoping I can disable the hard drive in the BIOS and boot from SD so that even if the system is compromised the hard disk would be out of play.
That’s it. Toss in a book and some clothes, and I’m ready to roll. Yee-haw.
I was just looking at mini notebooks. I was thinking about plugging it into a larger monitor/keyboard for everyday use. Sure would be nice to lug around.
Do you think that’s feasible?
Thanks,
Stephen