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There are some good notes here, but they're relatively desktop oriented. For the truly paranoid desktop user https://tails.boum.org/ https://tails.boum.org/ acc
by imperialWicket 13y ago
There are some good notes here, but they're relatively desktop oriented. For the truly paranoid desktop user https://tails.boum.org/ https://tails.boum.org/ accomplishes much of this out of the box.
- autodidakto 13y agoAlternatively, there's Whonix (https://whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page https://whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page). More steps but potentially more secure. Major difference is that whonix runs in a VM (or two), is persisted (though you could use VM snapshots), and the tor proxy setup is safer (thanks to security-by-isolation and tor socks, no app can figure out the host's ip nor connect directly to the net). Qubes OS is a new xen based OS that takes security by isolation to a new level. Still young but I'm keeping my eye on it. The article just convinces me of the need for highly tested/developed security focused distros. There are so many ways to screw up.
- D9u 13y agoI was surprised to see that you were the first one to mention Virtual Machines in these comments. I would use a VM on a "live" system, booted from removable media, to which no data is ever written. (DVD) But it wouldn't be any Linux distro. BSD is what I prefer. Take your pick of the available options, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, *BSD.