Rationale

It should not be that easy, for an attacker with physical access, to retrieve Tails memory. (Note that this will especially be the case for a ?Tails server instance left unattended.

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other implementation ideas

• If a firewire card was inserted into the slot and the bus is active, pop up a dialog and ask "hey, you want to use firewire/etc.?"
• disable these buses by default, allow opt-in through tails-greeter to enable
• ask that users assert they want to use this or that bus, and make the assertion bind to a single device, rather than all devices blindly
• de-activate PCMCIA and ExpressCard on systems that don't have any PCMCIA or ExpressCard devices after running for 5 minutes. This is going to byte some users, but probably only the first time.