gpg in a cybercafé

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Mar 6 11:05:18 CET 2015


On Fri,  6 Mar 2015 09:12, htd+ml at fritha.org said:

> In case you're allowed to boot from an external medium, this still won't be
> secure. Because you have no control over the hardware built into the computer,

Does not even need to be hardware: A (remotely) modified firmware might
first boot you into a virtual machine and only then boot the OS from
disk or USB.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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