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Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA

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Re: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA

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What is Tails, if not an operating system?

A distribution of the Linux operating system. It's a Debian distribution with some userspace tools bundled.

"No officer, these aren't drugs, they're a distribution of drugs with some userspace fillers bundled."

Re: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA

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What is Tails, if not an operating system?

A distribution of the Linux operating system. It's a Debian distribution with some userspace tools bundled.

Eh... it is more correct to call a distribution an OS than to call a kernel an OS; the kernel is only a component.

Re: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA

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> One way is to record the fact that from your home computer originated some Tor traffic at almost the same time the Google search took place. This either implies someone already suspects you and are monitoring you or that you are the only person searching on Google using Tor at that particular moment. I find the latter hard to believe. Even if it is true, it can be mitigated by more people using tor at the same time…

You might want to run a non-exit node at your home. That way you have a lot of Tor traffic all the time, and the one time you really do need anonymity, it doesn't show up as anything unusual.

Yes, because nothing will make you less interesting to law enforcement than running a Tor node.
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