I don't like this guide at all. Some of its points are questionable, but the thing is, it doesn't know what it wants to be and aimed at whom. Starting from the

I don't like this guide at all. Some of its points are questionable, but the thing is, it doesn't know what it wants to be and aimed at whom. Starting from the most obvious red flag, falling for the baseless boycotting of 7zip like some equally questionable sites and threads have been pushing (and their motives, such as sourceforge bad, all Russian developers bad and the proposed alternatives.. let's not get started). [0] [1] This suggests not to use privacy tools (most of which are FOSS and perfectly safe with proper usage), and to rely on official documentation only. I suppose there's some trouble in people for example disabling (extremely invasive) updates and forgetting about it, the average Joe that is. Some others are a compromise on privacy, I'd never accept cloud-based protection. Veracrypt is perfectly safe software, unlike the claims in this page that goes on to just mention how it breaks the boot trust chain, furthermore I'd trust it more than anything BitLocker does unless it's strictly a pre-boot authentication password with no TPM. Windows cannot be made perfectly safe, accept and move on, this self-flagellation seeking the most hardened possible setup with things such as avoiding Firefox is a waste of time. Microsoft itself distributes what some may define malware, autorunning at startup forever on with a rundll process with Windows Update (see: logitech download assistant if you plug in one of their mice). 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31876896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31876896 1. https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/27/7zip_compression_tool/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/27/7zip_compression_tool...