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		tedks on Oct 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online a... Are there any small, cheap laptops with optical drives? Another alternative is having enough 1gb usb sticks to be able to throw them away on a regular basis. Sort of like burner phones. (Personally I'm not sure I want to go so far as to buy a separate computer for private use now, but I might as well know how to do it.)

justincormack on Oct 6, 2013 [–]

You can get various flash types with read only switches, though whether these can actually stop writes I dont know. Optical drives are harder to get now, but old computers are widely available I suppose, and less traceable.

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