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Hardening the USB Armory

As a good crypto nerd, I usually use an entirely encrypted linux FS: / but also /boot using grub LUKS support. It's a good setup but it's not perfect, the BIOS and the bootloader are not protected.

I recently got a USBArmory and I wanted to apply the same (or a better) setup.

I found some useful links but no clear howto. So this is my setup.

Descartes, Berkeley and Functional Reactive Programming

By @dmvaldman

Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is generating buzz as an alternative to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) for certain use cases. However, an internet search quickly leads a curious and optimistic reader into the rabbit-hole of monads, functors, and other technical jargon. I’ve since emerged from this dark and lonely place with the realization that these words are mere implementation details, and that the core concepts are far more universal. In fact, the groundwork was laid down many centuries before the first computer, and has more to do with interpretations of reality, than structuring programs. Allow me to explain.

There’s an old thought experiment that goes like this:

	[
	{
	"key": "cmd+;",
	"command": "editor.action.goToDeclaration"
	},
	{
	"key": "shift+cmd+;",
	"command": "workbench.action.navigateBack",
	"when": "canNavigateBack"
	}

	function logClass(target: any) {

	// save a reference to the original constructor
	var original = target;

	// a utility function to generate instances of a class
	function construct(constructor, args) {
	var c : any = function () {
	return constructor.apply(this, args);
	}

	/*

	# Usage in html template:

	"xxx \| nl2br"

	<div ng-bind-html=" YourString \| nl2br "></div>

	or:

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	# LOAD RAILS ENV ...

	def returning(value)
	yield(value)
	value
	end

	def convert_hash_to_ordered_hash_and_sort(object, deep = false)
	# from http://seb.box.re/2010/1/15/deep-hash-ordering-with-ruby-1-8/
	if object.is_a?(Hash)

	var YUI_config = {};
	(function (YUI, global) {
	var modules = {};
	var justLoaded = [];

	var AMD_prefix = '~AMD~';

	function nameFromPath(path) {
	var parts = path.split(/\//g).pop().split(/\./g),
	ext = parts.pop();

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh