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USB Coding Expert: Trusting a Bootable Stick Means Trusting Its Supplier

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A bootable AI coding assistant is sold on one property: it runs offline, on a USB stick, and leaves nothing on the host machine. That property is checkable on your own desk in a few minutes. What is harder to check is the other end — where the image came from. This piece is about that second half:…

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  1. 2026-10-22 22:41 · DEV Community — AI
    USB Coding Expert: Trusting a Bootable Stick Means Trusting Its Supplier

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