Most Secure, Private and Usable Linux Distro - Rob Braxman Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Edwin
I have some questions and I appreciate any feed back I can get. I have an extra old Dell gaming laptop. I7-8700, 16gb ram, 2 ssd hard drives, and so forth. I have a subscription to Private Internet Access VPN. I like the idea of Linux and have tried it a bunch of times. I always end up by to windows for games and other programs. I want to create some secure so that I'm not broadcasting who I am to the world, while thinking I'm anonymous. At the same time I want to play with Linux again, like fedora, pop, manjaro, and so forth. I like the idea of a distro on a thumb drive. What should I be researching? What is recommended in 2021? Or would it be better to dedicate the laptop to be used securely?
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I have some questions and I appreciate any feed back I can get. I have an extra old Dell gaming laptop. I7-8700, 16gb ram, 2 ssd hard drives, and so forth. I have a subscription to Private Internet Access VPN. I like the idea of Linux and have tried it a bunch of times. I always end up by to windows for games and other programs. I want to create some secure so that I'm not broadcasting who I am to the world, while thinking I'm anonymous. At the same time I want to play with Linux again, like fedora, pop, manjaro, and so forth. I like the idea of a distro on a thumb drive. What should I be researching? What is recommended in 2021? Or would it be better to dedicate the laptop to be used securely?
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Chris
Snowden uses and advocates for Tails. He gave a Tails USB to the two trusted reporters when he was blowing on that whistle. It's perfect for sensitive investigative journalism. Tails is not an every day driver, you plug in your USB, work on your story, use the built in PGP encryption to send your work, use the built in Electrum wallet to store crypto, and restore from seed every single time you want to use your wallet, dump the memory and remove Tails and go back to watching Netflix or whatever that isn't sensitive on a usable distro or even Windows. It's not about daily driving, but about efficiency.
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Snowden uses and advocates for Tails. He gave a Tails USB to the two trusted reporters when he was blowing on that whistle. It's perfect for sensitive investigative journalism. Tails is not an every day driver, you plug in your USB, work on your story, use the built in PGP encryption to send your work, use the built in Electrum wallet to store crypto, and restore from seed every single time you want to use your wallet, dump the memory and remove Tails and go back to watching Netflix or whatever that isn't sensitive on a usable distro or even Windows. It's not about daily driving, but about efficiency.
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Anthony
I use Veracrypt at work to encrypt external drives, the problem we have with it is if you loose power to the laptop running it or the external drive it usually trashes the data. You have to start from scratch and rebuild it fresh with no data on it. I found I had a dodgy PSU on the external drive which caused this several times. Also if you forget to dismount the drive it can cause this.
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I use Veracrypt at work to encrypt external drives, the problem we have with it is if you loose power to the laptop running it or the external drive it usually trashes the data. You have to start from scratch and rebuild it fresh with no data on it. I found I had a dodgy PSU on the external drive which caused this several times. Also if you forget to dismount the drive it can cause this.
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V.
I'm not trying to prevent government agencies from spying. What I would like to do is prevent corporations, advertisers, and individuals from gathering information. I would like to block exploits as well. Are there any cloud disks that are safe from intrusion? I create copyrightable content that I would like to access from different platforms/locations.
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I'm not trying to prevent government agencies from spying. What I would like to do is prevent corporations, advertisers, and individuals from gathering information. I would like to block exploits as well. Are there any cloud disks that are safe from intrusion? I create copyrightable content that I would like to access from different platforms/locations.
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AlphizzleMusic
10: 07 - Huh? Did you just say 'You don't want to run Tor over VPN. You want to run a VPN over Tor. '?
Isn't that incorrect? Doesn't Tor over VPN mean your VPN is activated before you start a Tor session (which is more secure than activating a VPN afterwards, from within Tor, after you've already started the Tor session?
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10: 07 - Huh? Did you just say 'You don't want to run Tor over VPN. You want to run a VPN over Tor. '?
Isn't that incorrect? Doesn't Tor over VPN mean your VPN is activated before you start a Tor session (which is more secure than activating a VPN afterwards, from within Tor, after you've already started the Tor session?
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Jozsef
Hi Rob
I'm not a techie, but want internet and phone security.
Also I trade the markets and don't want to slow down my broker's signals.
I plan to get a Lunux laptop, degoogled phone and the Brax Wifi router.
Will those work together withou affecting speed and convenience? . such as phone apps?
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Hi Rob
I'm not a techie, but want internet and phone security.
Also I trade the markets and don't want to slow down my broker's signals.
I plan to get a Lunux laptop, degoogled phone and the Brax Wifi router.
Will those work together withou affecting speed and convenience? . such as phone apps?
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jester103087
I think what you're talking about with the BIOS and HP is the very problem that stopping me from installing a lot of these 64-bit operating systems. I can't say all because I have managed to install a 64-bit of Ubuntu and it runs really slow but it runs. Also that could just be hardware limitations
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I think what you're talking about with the BIOS and HP is the very problem that stopping me from installing a lot of these 64-bit operating systems. I can't say all because I have managed to install a 64-bit of Ubuntu and it runs really slow but it runs. Also that could just be hardware limitations
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mrkrud
Qubes has preinstalled Debian and fedora templates and so can run Firefox, chrome, etc to do banking. You can also add more templates and vm. Was pretty rough on my old t420 though and some serious waiting for these qubes to get started. Will definitely try again when time to upgrade
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Qubes has preinstalled Debian and fedora templates and so can run Firefox, chrome, etc to do banking. You can also add more templates and vm. Was pretty rough on my old t420 though and some serious waiting for these qubes to get started. Will definitely try again when time to upgrade
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felipe
openbsd still is the most difficult to breach, and if u run it in a VM inside a virtual cluster, u can easily replicate an untarnished one in seconds. in between your devices, use tailscale or zerotier.
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openbsd still is the most difficult to breach, and if u run it in a VM inside a virtual cluster, u can easily replicate an untarnished one in seconds. in between your devices, use tailscale or zerotier.
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Shorn
You can install other linux, even windows, or android X86, onto Qubes. So you can use normal browsers. You can install VPNs in many ways. So you can install a Linux which is connected to whatever VPN.
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You can install other linux, even windows, or android X86, onto Qubes. So you can use normal browsers. You can install VPNs in many ways. So you can install a Linux which is connected to whatever VPN.
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