Anonymous
I don’t mind people using Live USB for whatever reasons it might be, but would only like to remind:
Some of my serious work involves helping some folks with their home computers. … I can look at their hardware without touching their hard drive.
As I already mentioned: “Demonstrating an OS, installing OS or sometimes saving some file from some machine.”
I can keep lessons on my own disk and carry it from house to house.
You can do that on any USB without Live OS too.
It is also convenient to keep a separate drive for privacy and security.
No, it’s not. For security you would never use any kind of (writable media) persistence, but Live OS with NO persistence (== live CD).
To hide your p0rn from your partner (== privacy), any USB without OS install/persistence would also do the job.
There are lots of good ways to use this persistence system.
I know one good reason: help capitalism bloosom. Boost sales of USB pen drives. 😉
Maybe of interest for some of you, if you don’t know it already:
http://superuser.com/questions/483496/what-downsides-are-there-to-running-an-os-off-of-a-flash-drive-instead-of-a-hard
Also, you would never use any kind of flash storage (SSD, eMMC, SD, USB …) as a permanent storage (== archiving), but only as a temporary (== data transport) storage. For archiving purposes, HD and archival CD/DVD is still the best we currently have.
However, all this has nothing to do with “See active network connection in LiveUSB” and I’m pulling the line here.
Sorry for the “off-topic” on the one side, but on the other side, it’s good as a reminder as what for USB storage was (not) meant to be.