My impact on L.P.S- Light Weight Portable Security
My impact on L.P.S- Light Weight Portable Security was devastating and it has never recovered and gone dormant.
LPS-Public has been downloaded 17,467 times so far!
LPS (Lightweight Portable Security) is an open source distribution of Linux that provides users with a thin client designed to run directly from a portable device and to not expose your private data and credentials to anyone.
It has been created by the US Air Force Research Laboratory, as part of their Software Protection Initiative project, and can be used for PIV (Personal Identity Verification) or CAC (Common Access Card) restricted government websites.
Distributed as Live CDs in multiple editions
The operating system is distributed as three Live CDs, LPS Public, LPS Public Deluxe, and LPS Remote Access. They can be easily deployed to USB flash drives using the UNetbootin application, or written to blank CDs using any CD/DVD burning software.The first two are available to the general public, but the third one has been specifically designed to be used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), as well as various other US federal government agencies.
While LPS Public is the smaller one and includes a minimal set of packages, LPS Public Deluxe comes with a bigger collection of applications and utilities. They are both engineered to allow productive use of the Internet.
Trusted
End Node Security (TENS), previously called Lightweight Portable
Security (LPS), is a Linux-based live CD with a goal of allowing
users to work on a computer without the risk of exposing their
credentials and private data to malware, key loggers and other
Internet-era ills. It includes a minimal set of applications and
utilities, such as the Firefox web browser or an encryption wizard
for encrypting and decrypting personal files. The live CD is a
product produced by the United States of America's Department of
Defence and is part of that organization's Software Protection
Initiative.
Update
I have now tested L.P.S and it is below par in every respect except the size which is small enough to fit into a Mini CD.
I have now tested L.P.S and it is below par in every respect except the size which is small enough to fit into a Mini CD.
Having
said that it detected all my hardware and it looks like it has taken
Redhat (at least the GTK and the toolkit) as the base by looking at
its squarish graphic outputs.
I
am not going to detail all the pitfalls but warn newbies not to use
it and go for Peppermint which is good for you guys and girls.
Even
Peppermint gets 750 out of my 1000 points which is being revised by
me recently.
I
am not going to state how much it gets from my scale of points,
fearing, few of the developers might get a heart attacks.
Any distribution without Muliti-language capability gets minus 250 and only Debian and Fedora gets about 200 points, for that feature.
Any distribution without Muliti-language capability gets minus 250 and only Debian and Fedora gets about 200 points, for that feature.
LPS
is only in English and No Sinhala means, it as discriminating small
guys in smaller countries which is against UNO charter.
Only
Debian supports Sinhala as a living language and Fedora also does a
reasonable job in that respect but because of its rapid change
(including partition type) I cannot recommend Fedora too.
As
for my final comment for LPS anybody including a newbie who uses root
permission at lib is naked enough to be insane in a Linux
community.
And rooting naked is not in anyway a gamesmanship.
And rooting naked is not in anyway a gamesmanship.
So
if you want to be naked or insane use LPS at lib.
Otherwise
I have listed SliTaz which is 34 MiB and 4MLinux which is 50 MiB
(4Ms stands for Mini Server, Multimedia, Maintenance (security), Miracle-games) in this blog site recently would fit in your Mini CD.
(4Ms stands for Mini Server, Multimedia, Maintenance (security), Miracle-games) in this blog site recently would fit in your Mini CD.
LPS
cannot match these two and has a big security hole to plug.
If
you are like me download and use it for irrational fun.
Happy
Independence day to all Americans and would be (aspiring)
AmericanS!
Light Weight Portable, (Private) and Secure or is it?
Light Weight Portable, (Private) and Secure or is it?
It
looks like American Defense Industry is doing catching up service
(activity).
It
is 20 years too late of course with Linux.
Sometime
Americans let me laugh at myself.
I
am not antiamerican (there is no word called antiamerican in the
American Dictionary, unfortunately) in philosophy but in ideology.
My
theme is small is beautiful.
The
American ideology is bigger the best.
The
Thinking Big is IBM philosophy.
In
other words, the richer an American becomes better is for the world.
The
American dream is to become rich from cradle to the grave, even if
you are not a politician.
Our
dream is to let only politicians become rich by default especially if
they administer cricket.
My
theme is "become rich just enough to become small in thinking of
becoming big but big in thinking to be sustainable and not become a
big White (or Black or Yellow or Brown) Pest in this world which
cannot afford to sustain anymore of them with scarce resources.
I
like one American Philosophy and that is to be liberal in thinking
not aristocratic or regimented like in a orthodox religion.
Become
a free thinker and an open inquirer.
The
WiKiLeakes has done enough damage to American esteem and reputation
and they are adopting some of my Linux strategy in practice.
United
States of America's Department of Defense has produced a Linux Live
CD for public use probably for Americans abroad and would be
non-american spies in the Middle East (Not necessary in Sri-Lanka, we
do not have secrets that Americans do not know except the last two
days of our departure or radio silence when most essential silence
was maintained by the defense establishment which American have to
come here and learn from our Big Ball Boys of Cricket-how to land a
carom ball or a googly at will- we never tell English boys how much
Mahela is going to score in the next match or the World Cup final).
Sri-Lanka
is the only country in this world where Americans do not need to have
any secret spies and our defense secretary is American by
registrations and does not trust Americans a wee bit but our mothers
would be when pregnant, do not say Baby going to London town but My
Baby is going to New York or Washington or Chicago is the current
theme and from mothers to fathers to babies will give American
embassy their money to spy on our mother Lanka.
It
is amazing to see they are stealing my original Sri-Lankan ideas and
I feel bit flushed and bit redundant in thinking now.
1.
Number one is I promote Light Weight (Bonobo type of Linux
distributions-SLiTaz is only 30 MiB) distributions in Linux,
including Puppy my favorite.
2.
Number two of my dream ideas is to make all distribution Public
including Microsoft and Apple which are all American Creations with
serious bugs when WiKILeaks used them to exposed American wits.
In
other words American inventions are the most reliable security lapses
that we can exploit to get American secrets.
3.
For security I say go for Linux and the Americans have turned to
Linux for safety and security but leaving daring loop holes in
executing them.
Having
said that they are new to Linux and one never uses root permission
(only when one roots on top of a problem or underdog) to boot but
their Live CD is already booted and rooted all the time like American
based French IMF guys.
Another
alarming feature is hashed passwords are stored in the would
be-readable /etc/passwd file, that can be cracked.
The
funniest part and which I laugh at length is they are promoting my
AntiMicrosft stance from the DoD (Department of Defense) which
accepts Microsoft is the biggest American Love and Liability.
Another
great idea is to use Flash which recently had breached security
through FireFox browser.
These
Americans in the Defense Department got them all wrong and Linus
Torvalds must be laughing nonstop like over nonstop singers and
dancers.
American
please use this distribution at your own liberty and risk but
non-americans beware that this must be another ploy to make some
unrest in the Middle East which they are fast losing ground.
I
am downloading it and will be very elaborate when I give my next
comment.
If
you need more details please visit distrowatch weekly review but
their description lacks funny tone coming from America.
American do not know how to laugh at themselves and DoD has given them a big opportunity.
Use that opportunity to laugh and there is freedom at your disposal to laugh at self, Linux-wise, which is a healthy habit.
I do not know what their future plans are but project without a vision or fun won't last long.
But I will be very nosy in any case when an update comes with bug fixes.
American do not know how to laugh at themselves and DoD has given them a big opportunity.
Use that opportunity to laugh and there is freedom at your disposal to laugh at self, Linux-wise, which is a healthy habit.
I do not know what their future plans are but project without a vision or fun won't last long.
But I will be very nosy in any case when an update comes with bug fixes.
