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by aforensics 7y ago
And now fixed, moved to SHA512.
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by aforensics 7y ago
Thanks, we'll look into it.
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by aforensics 7y ago
Right. So all we can do at our end is better document the risks and limitations, and then work on the political advocacy side of things to promote diversity and nonconformity. Such is the spirit of Linux. Is every Linux user automatically s
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by aforensics 7y ago
This is interesting. This also means that using encryption or anything that can plausibly make someone even slightly suspect you're using encryption (even if you are not) can make your situation worse, with certain classes of enemies.
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by aforensics 7y ago
Indeed. Software is a supplement to the physical world. But we do what we can, and at least in the realm of software, we can have freedom. It's possible Tor and Tails is dangerous software to use in certain states. But if they can safe
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by aforensics 7y ago
Red flags might not actually matter in many use cases. But where it does, setting up a decoy OS that boots on the computer by default when turned on may be one good strategy. For a VeraCrypt volume, setting up an outer volume with convincin
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by aforensics 7y ago
Yes and yes. No, the VM is not read-only. (But you can run a VM as read-only.)
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by aforensics 7y ago
> Is the veracrypt drive, and therefore the HVM, linked to my specific instance of tails or can it be accessed by anyone with a tails usb and my veracrypt authentication details? If someone has your VeraCrypt volume password, the volume
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by aforensics 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Some of it made sense and I've updated the parent comment.
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by aforensics 7y ago
Well, the idea is that you don't have to be limited by Tor's speed or handicaps like being IP blocked when web browsing, if you don't want that by default. We love Tails' amnesia for anti-forensics, but we prefer Whonix&
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by aforensics 7y ago
Hello HN, We're finally sharing our github with the world. This post is the first announcement of our project apart from our thus-far non-populated subreddit. No one's discovered us yet. We've only told one person in the worl
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Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace(github.com)
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