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For a supposed hacker community, knowledge of Tor sure is low. Perhaps the privacy and anonymity people don't feel too keen on commenting. Here is a good talk by Roger Dingledine, …

The woes of supporting an "I don't want to leave any crumbs" threat model. There are countless of pro-privacy projects who call themselves that simply because their service can be …

> Made this privacy conscious temporary mail extension > Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue It's not privacy conscious. Privacy conscious would mean A) does not use Cloudfla…

PSA: It's Tor not TOR. https://support.torproject.org/#about_why-is-it-called-tor

https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Sdwdate

> How is booting your encrypted partition in a VM within Tails more secure than booting it directly? There will be no proof of an operating system existing at all, just random data…

I think that the focus of combining it with Whonix is interesting and is what piqued my interest originally. Other than that, nothing.

See also: https://github.com/IncognitoIceman/HiddenVM Unfortunately, it looks like this version is no longer maintained. "HiddenVM is a futuristic tool powered by KVM designed to c…

It's highly unlikely that any operating system can be as secure as Qubes OS[1], simply by considering the model itself. Especially if using Whonix[2] VMs to browse the internet. It…

I'm curious about the "trust" discussion that keeps being brought up here. What does GrapheneOS do differently from say, Debian GNU/Linux or Fedora? It seems to me that it's no dif…

How about everyone puts their monthly $5 into a VPS to run a Tor node to make the network faster rather than constantly pay for snake oil?

Luckily I never have to use Windows these days, but with tiling window managers and package managers being a thing now, it might not be as horrible usability wise.

> How? They fail to say, and most of what they do is just promotional garbage. On the page that OP linked to, there's statements such as: "The Everything Tor OS - All traffic is ro…

> "Unanimously?" By whom? By anyone who has read and understood the technical design pages.[1][2][3] [1]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Technical_Introduction [2]: https://www.wh…

See these posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509560#37511890

I think that we both can agree that less = better, so I don't see your point.

Tails uses a less secure model because it relies on the system firewall to block any non-Tor connections. This means that any user to root vulnerability will leave you naked, deano…