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| There is a risk when plugging USB devices or other writeable storage media into a conventional operating system that the OS will write to the device, meaning a clean dump of the original media cannot subsequently be made. To enable as clean as possible a dump to be preserved - even in the case of used devices it is good to avoid making any further changes. | There is a risk when plugging USB devices or other writeable storage media into a conventional operating system that the OS will write to the device, meaning a clean dump of the original media cannot subsequently be made. To enable as clean as possible a dump to be preserved - even in the case of used devices it is good to avoid making any further changes. | ||
| - | This method uses a forensics-oriented Linux distribution which defaults to blocking all devices in read-only mode to ensure as secure as possible an environment for imaging of writeable storage media. | + | This method uses a forensics-oriented Linux distribution which defaults to blocking all devices in read-only mode to ensure as secure as possible an environment |
| ===== Methods ===== | ===== Methods ===== | ||