Ask HN: Secure and minimalist linux distros?

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Post by rob-alarcon » Sat, Sep 07, 2013, 4:19 AM UTC

Recently somehow my Credit and Debit card information was stolen (maybe I have some malware in my Win8 machine), I'm searching for a secure and minimalist linux distro so I can create a VM to do just online transactions over secure Networks (like home). I found this document http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distros-paranoid-secure-distros-si/ that talks about LPS, Tails and Surprise!. What do you think?

Re: Ask HN: Secure and minimalist linux distros?

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Post by autotravis » Sat, Sep 07, 2013, 4:29 AM UTC

I'd say good ole debian would accomplish your goals, but I'll defer to commenters with more ornate tin-foil hats.

Re: Ask HN: Secure and minimalist linux distros?

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Post by hannibal5 » Sat, Sep 07, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

Bruce Schneier uses Tails: https://tails.boum.org/

>Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to write about.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rema...