On Tue, 14 May 2013, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
can limit speeds if you need to. USB sticks cost virtually nothing these days and a couple of dollars postage isn't much to help someone out.
Are you volunteering to do this? If so then I can try and collect some USB sticks via the LUV hardware library for your use.
An open access point with Linux ISO files wouldn't interest me, unless I knew exactly who was running it and that it was trustworthy; but it's not so bad if you verify the ISO files properly first.
When the ISO files come with SHA signatures that are GPG signed (as Debian install images do) then there are no issues with an open access point that you don't have with any other form of Internet access. If there aren't signed hashes of the data then no form of Internet access will save you. There have been many occasions in the past when FTP and web servers have been compromised and upstream source archives etc have been altered.
It's been too easy, even with Linux [1] (_might_ be okay now, depends on your distro and setup) to cause havoc with a rogue USB stick or similar as well.
How would someone do that? Linux doesn't have a run a program automatically when device is mounted "feature" unlike Windows. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/