Lightweight Portable Security - A distro from US Department of Defense

[MyWorld]

Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), created by USA's Department of Defence, is a small Linux live CD focusing on privacy and security, for this reason, it boots from a CD and executes from RAM, providing a web browser, a file manager and some interesing tools. LPS-Public turns an untrusted system into a trusted network client.

As i said before, the Lightweight Portable Security distribution was created by the Software Protection Initiative under the direction of the Air Force Research Laboratory and the US Department Of Defense. The idea behind it is that government workers can use a CDROM or USB stick to boot into a tamper proof, pristine desktop when using insecure computers such as those available in hotels or a worker’s own home. The environment that it offers should be largely resistant to Internet-borne security threats such as viruses and spyware, particularly when launched from read-only media such as a CDROM. The LPS system does not mount the hard drive of the host machine, so no trace of work activity can be written to the local computer.

http://www.unixmen.com/software/183...linux-disto-from-the-us-department-of-defense

http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm

 

[LisaConradie]

These have been around for years, literally. But if it's news to you, I guess...

 

[MyWorld]

These have been around for years, literally. But if it's news to you, I guess...

First release was last year April it seems, years ago, yes.

 

[LisaConradie]

It's called a security distro, there's many of them. Years.

 

[Lounger]

It's 310Mb zipped. Not to bad.

 

[Jimmeh]

Good info. Thanks. Downloading now.

 

[Lounger]

I tried it.

Fills the whole screen up with dots as though it's loading, then blank screen and have to reboot.

Fail.

 

[MyWorld]

I tried it.

Fills the whole screen up with dots as though it's loading, then blank screen and have to reboot.

Fail.

Well, it ain't broken.

If you were in the army you would know that it is never their fault, you just have not learned how to use it properly. Or it was your fault it is broken because you never dare say that Uncle Sam ship you something broken.