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- Use an open-source OS like Linux. Ubuntu is user-friendly. Windows isn't safe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY - I
by gasull 13y ago
- Use an open-source OS like Linux. Ubuntu is user-friendly. Windows isn't safe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
- Install the OS with full-disk encryption.
- If you use a service like Dropbox, use EncFS to encrypt everything in the cloud.
- For email, you'll need to start using a mail user agent like Mutt or Thunderbird with PGP/GnuPG. And then the problem will be that none of your friends use encryption anyway. Personally I'm telling everyone about using Bitmessage instead of email: https://bitmessage.org https://bitmessage.org
- tptacek 13y agoIt's like we're devolving back to Slashdot circa 1999. In reality, the Windows kernel is one of the most heavily audited carefully inspected codebases in the world, not because Microsoft spends a cubic fuckton of money getting external firms to do that (though they do), but because every vulnerability research firm in the world has reverse engineered the code --- which Microsoft tends to make very easy, for instance by publishing symbols. The likelihood that Microsoft is shipping block-level encryption with secret backdoors is pretty close to zero.