OT: USB stick with write protect switch?

[drew einhorn]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> drew einhorn wrote:
>> The convenience of booting from a USB stick is great!
>>
>> It would be even better to be able to flip a switch on the stick
>> and making it a read only device!
>>
>> Anybody know of a source?
>>
>>
>  From a terminal.
>
>    sudo chmod 444 /media/disk
>
> where disk=mount point for the USB device.  This will render the USB
> device read only in the simplest form.  Read
>
>    man chmod
>
> for more details on how you can set the privileges of the device.
>

I want the write protection in hardware.

So that if a system is compromised a simple reboot restores
the system to an uncompromised but still vulnerable state.
We would still have work to do.

-- 
Drew Einhorn