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Live Distro installed locally? (lemmy.world)

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I've got kind of a weird use case where I have a lot of laptops used for specifically for sensitive customer environments. These aren't used by everyone all the time, but only when the need arises. We need to have persistence when needed, but in some environments where exfiltration is a concern, we need to be able to work with a machine that 'forgets'.

Basically I need something like a live distro installed on the local system. but somehow allow luks encrypted persistence volumes on USB or something so our folks can maintain their own persistence when its allowed. I've used TAILS in the past for this, but some contracts specifically stipulate no USBs, and from what I understand, TAILS on HD is an adventure...

I've never heard of anything like this, and I don't have the funding to spin our own distro at the moment. Anyone have any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

We used to use virtual box on windows with an immutable hard disk to boot the environment with storage, for persistence, elsewhere (usb for example) if required. Just used standard ubuntu for the guest distro.

Once you shut down the VM the vhd reverts to as installed. It's a bit painful distributing the system but can be done.

You can prevent ordinary users messing with the immutable setting as well if that is a concern.