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> Don't use macOS or Windows -- only Linux > Move to Brazil and live in the rainforest Juvenile, snarky, irreverent and irrelevant advice I'd expect to read o

> Don't use macOS or Windows -- only Linux > Move to Brazil and live in the rainforest Juvenile, snarky, irreverent and irrelevant advice I'd expect to read on a 12 year old's Reddit post.

i_am_proteus 5y ago
That might be why the next thing in the article is: >I don't know about you, but I don't want to do all of that.
retrac 5y ago
> I don't know about you, but I don't want to do all of that. [...] I don't recommend being on either extreme of this spectrum. It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online. Of course, completely sanitizing your online presence is difficult, and probably unnecessary. I thought the two lists were a nice rhetorical framing - present a dilemma (total openness vs. total anonymity) and then wiggle out of it to a compromise.
- Ansil849 5y ago
  > It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online. The items I quoted do nothing to protect ones' identity online. Snark is only effective if relevant.
  - AitchEmArsey 5y ago
    The closed nature of MacOS and Windows means that you have no guarantees (and no audit mechanism) to determine how much the machine is passing your data back to HQ. As the post very clearly states, most people don't need to care - but someone with extreme paranoia has only one obvious choice here. Your aggressive negativity is far less interesting than this blog, and serves no purpose whatsoever.
  - RustyConsul 5y ago
    holy cow! I literally laughed out loud when i read the rainforest remark. Chill out dude, you're reading something called 'Thoughts' by some random dude on the internet lol
  - jokethrowaway 5y ago
    Of course they do. On top of being OSS and easier to inspect and analyse, Linux is less likely to be a target, there is no online account connected to your system account Living in the rainforest is an extra step to get outside of spying jurisdictions. As long as something doesn't eat you.
  - bigDinosaur 5y ago
    I found it funny. This wasn't a technical document.
can16358p 5y ago
Linux part is perfecly valid IMO, though the rainforest was I think a bit deliberate exaggeration.
- fsflover 5y ago
  Linux is definitely more anonymous than Windows/Mac, but if you seriously want to be anonymous, you should use Qubes with Whonix.
  - chaxor 5y ago
    Is there a good virtualbox/vm of these yet?
    - crtasm 5y ago
      Hasn't Whonix always been provided as a pair of VMs? https://www.whonix.org/#download https://www.whonix.org/#download Qubes is a hypervisor itself, it's not designed to be virtualised.
  - hanniabu 5y ago
    What exactly positions those ahead of Linux?
    - fsflover 5y ago
      https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-provide-security https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-provide-secu...
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> Don't use macOS or Windows -- only Linux > Move to Brazil and live in the rainforest Juvenile, snarky, irreverent and irrelevant advice I'd expect to read on a 12 year old's Reddit post.

i_am_proteus 5y ago

That might be why the next thing in the article is: >I don't know about you, but I don't want to do all of that.

retrac 5y ago

> I don't know about you, but I don't want to do all of that. [...] I don't recommend being on either extreme of this spectrum. It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online. Of course, completely sanitizing your online presence is difficult, and probably unnecessary. I thought the two lists were a nice rhetorical framing - present a dilemma (total openness vs. total anonymity) and then wiggle out of it to a compromise.

Ansil849 5y ago
> It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online. The items I quoted do nothing to protect ones' identity online. Snark is only effective if relevant.
- AitchEmArsey 5y ago
  The closed nature of MacOS and Windows means that you have no guarantees (and no audit mechanism) to determine how much the machine is passing your data back to HQ. As the post very clearly states, most people don't need to care - but someone with extreme paranoia has only one obvious choice here. Your aggressive negativity is far less interesting than this blog, and serves no purpose whatsoever.
- RustyConsul 5y ago
  holy cow! I literally laughed out loud when i read the rainforest remark. Chill out dude, you're reading something called 'Thoughts' by some random dude on the internet lol
- jokethrowaway 5y ago
  Of course they do. On top of being OSS and easier to inspect and analyse, Linux is less likely to be a target, there is no online account connected to your system account Living in the rainforest is an extra step to get outside of spying jurisdictions. As long as something doesn't eat you.
- bigDinosaur 5y ago
  I found it funny. This wasn't a technical document.

can16358p 5y ago

Linux part is perfecly valid IMO, though the rainforest was I think a bit deliberate exaggeration.

fsflover 5y ago
Linux is definitely more anonymous than Windows/Mac, but if you seriously want to be anonymous, you should use Qubes with Whonix.
- chaxor 5y ago
  Is there a good virtualbox/vm of these yet?
  - crtasm 5y ago
    Hasn't Whonix always been provided as a pair of VMs? https://www.whonix.org/#download https://www.whonix.org/#download Qubes is a hypervisor itself, it's not designed to be virtualised.
- hanniabu 5y ago
  What exactly positions those ahead of Linux?
  - fsflover 5y ago
    https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-provide-security https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-provide-secu...

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