Since thumb drives using FAT## formatting are difficult to access remotely and their contents cant be viewed remotely could we replace the Hard drive with thumb drives to make a secure system vs remote attacks?
e.g.
create a bootable thumb drive
keep a cloned copy around just in case
only use fat## thumb drives to save data files, install, or run software.
Ideas To further increase security:
Always reboot from a clean cloned bootable drive.
Use random strings to name any directory directly off the root to prevent malware from getting copied to anywhere but the root.
Use buffer files of various sizes that keeps the drive always 100% full, then to add files it would be necessary to delete the appropriately sized buffer files first blocking any malware from getting access to the drive.
use file encryption that makes data files indistinguishable from buffer files to prevent information leaks from random sector sampling.
If speed wasn't an issue, would this be a completely secure system against remote hackers regardless of any other security measures?
All I know is that after being persistently hacked for years, the hackers accessed all data on the hard drives, backup drives drives encrypted files, full disk encryption, data on three separate cloud accounts, air gapped removing all network or wireless drivers. You name it I tried it.
Files on thumb drives with obfuscated root directories was the only data that the hackers could never reach except once when I accidentally copied a map of the thumb drive to the hard drive.
