Is it me or the install process to USB is absurdly complex?
Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
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Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#42Whonix + Qubes is a treasure
How do you run both? Or is this one as a VM within the other?
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite the opposite, they're quite adamant about only using free (as in freedom) and in this case, beer, software. And denounce the usage of VPNs at every opportunity. ;)
So they really want you to use Tor - where the fact that you are connecting to a Tor node is extremely obvious, and flags you as a being part of the fractional percentage of internet users who do so - but don't want you to use a VPN, the use of which, while still not exactly baseline, is increasingly common? That may give you privacy, but it hardly seems like it makes you anonymous. Rather, wouldn't that send up a gi…
You can run a VPN on the host, or you can use a bridge on the VM if you want to minimize the probability of your ISP knowing you're using Tor.
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#44Whonix is great. I use it all the time in my dayjob. I write a lot of scripts that have to interact with criminal (malware c&c, phishing website, etc) infrastructure, including APT analysis. You don't want to make an opsec fail and/or leak your IP in a situation like this. Instead of doing something fragile and error-prone, like being careful to use a proxy all the time in my code, having a VPN, etc, I just run every…
What if your Whonix has an APT installed now?
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#45Whonix + Qubes is a treasure
How do you run both? Or is this one as a VM within the other?
QubesOS comes with Whonix VM templates configured by default.
Typical configuration would be one Whonix-Gateway to connect to Internet via Tor and one or more Whonix Worstations.
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#46So it's a Debian-based Linux distro with some configuration work done. I wish they'd simply summarize what it is.
One of the first and most notable links on the page is labeled "Learn What Is Whonix?". You should read it.
It has a lot of promotional material and little meat.
Also:
> Learn What Is Whonix?
I certainly hope the people behind this distribution have better English than that.
I also hope they're better mannered than you are, and much better informed.
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#47Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#48Whonix is great. I use it all the time in my dayjob. I write a lot of scripts that have to interact with criminal (malware c&c, phishing website, etc) infrastructure, including APT analysis. You don't want to make an opsec fail and/or leak your IP in a situation like this. Instead of doing something fragile and error-prone, like being careful to use a proxy all the time in my code, having a VPN, etc, I just run every…
Hey, the brand new account has a glowing review! This is certainly not promotional!
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#49Does not work on arm
Re: Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security
#50The website is fine. Please don't detract from the topic. Whonix is unanimously considered the best Linux distribution in terms of privacy and security. You can also run it in Qubes OS. It's intended to run on Virtualbox for now. One VM is for network access, while the other one is connected to the previous VM for said network access, and it's the one you should use. This is to prevent any de-anonymization attacks.
Does not work on M1/M2 macs or arm architecture