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Floyd L. Davidson writes:

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


I've actually written operating systems, as opposed to just thinking about
them. An operating system can be compromised just as easily when booted from a
read-only device as in other cases. Remember, the OS code in memory is not
read-only.