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Questions related to security of data on the Raspberry Pi. Also includes questions on using it in a security system (e.g. as a firewall).

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Can my Raspberry Pi Zero W python program be duplicated and resold?

If someone has physical access to the SD Card they can do ANYTHING, even if they don't know the password.
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How to get access via ssh as root - with public/private key

You normally can't login as root as this is a security risk. Indeed Debian doesn't even have a root login because there is no need - use sudo instead. …
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Disable Single User Mode

This is IMPOSSIBLE. If others have physical access to the system there is nothing you can do to prevent access. This pretty much applies to all computer systems. The access (more commonly referred to …
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Can a Raspberry Pi be firmware updated? Inquiring from a security perspective

The firmware is on the SD Card (or other boot device) - the only code on the SOC is a minimal bootloader (which is fixed) to find the boot device. It is possible to configure a network boot - this is …
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Hashing password longer than 14 characters in wpa_supplicant.conf

suggested in https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md This should work for passphrases from 8-63 characters Storing passwords in wpa_supplicant.conf is not really a security
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Kali+Ubuntu+Parrot Security Armhf Image's on same multiboot SD card howto?

The reason tutorials mention berryboot or NOOBS are because AFAIK they are the only boot managers for the Pi. I wouldn't use either, because they create too many problems with updating. You CAN insta …
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Encrypt specific directory on raspberry pi

This question is NOT Pi specific. If you want to write in Python, and allow users to execute it, they can read the code. If you want to hide code you need to write in a language that can be compiled …
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Linking a Home Alarm Siren to Raspi

Apart from the voltage, there are myriad problems interfacing with an external system. You could probably make it work with suitable protective circuitry, but it is likely to be simpler/safer to use a …
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Locking a C++ binary to the RPi serial number

The following is a fragment of a bash script which accesses CPUID MAC=$(cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address) # NOTE the last 6 bytes of MAC and CPUID are identical CPUID=$(awk '/Serial/ {print $3}' /proc …
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Default login in Raspberry is not working, how to go back to config screen?

You obviously had NOOBS installed, which has 2 partitions. DO NOT touch Recovery, which has all the distributions. If you had installed Raspbian from NOOBS you should still have the /boot partition. …
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