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Default Has your memory card ever worn out?

In article , Floyd L. Davidson
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Any OS that cannot do that is abjectly insecure.


There's no correlation between being able to boot and run from read-only
media and security.


You are clueless.

If the boot device is an R/O device, there is no such
thing as compromising the booted OS. Think about it...


oh yes there is. you won't be able to compromise the contents of the
actual read-only drive (and who cares), but you can compromise the
*booted* *system* itself once it's up and running.

think about it.