Anon Archived These Are Edward Snowden's Favorite Security Tools (That Anyone Can Use) (tomshardware.com)
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Anon Archived These Are Edward Snowden's Favorite Security Tools (That Anyone Can Use) (tomshardware.com)
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[–] Atarian 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Don't ever run Tails as a VM.
[–] White_Raven 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Why? I mean aside from the fact that literally every form of protection it offers is now ran directly through your unprotected daily driver, or is that what you meant?
[–] ThisIsntMe123 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Arguably, if your daily driver is fine, but you want to do not fine things, a TOR VM would be a good idea.
[–] HoneyNutStallmans 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
It depends on the host security. If you're capable of physically and technically securing your computer, TAILS is not an issue as a VM.
You have to be very careful with swap. The memory used by Tails may be swapped onto the host's disk, which means you should be doing LUKS encryption with the host's swap. Debian and Ubuntu and many alike include installation procedures that encrypt swap and the disk(s).
[–] unsweetenedsoymilk 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Good to see more tomshardware stuff here. Anyone here still reads Anandtech as well?
[–] meandrunk 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Hilariously ol' Tom has a problem when you visit his site via Tor.
[–] safespacer 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Funny, since THG has been regarded as a major shill site and a joke by everyone else, including the AnandTech community, since the P4 vs K8 days. Man, I miss when AMD was more than competitive and FX signified the very top of the line. Here's hoping Zen will once more.
AnandTech has always managed to stay easily accessible while sufficiently in-depth to provide insight. Great site.
[–] Quawonk 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I'm a little suspicious of Tor. If the NSA says it's great, chances are that's because they've got a backdoor into it or can otherwise compromise it. They helped build it after all.
[–] Zbruh 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
So I want to make Tor THE browser I use, but if I still log into accounts on it will I even be private at all?
[–] FuttsMcButts 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
Create new accounts while on Tor and only use those accounts on Tor. Don't use full names or better yet anything that can come back to you. Even pictures. Logging into any personal account used on your home, work, school network on Tor will break anonymity. They can just correlate who/where you are.
[–] meandrunk 1 point 14 points 15 points (+15|-1) ago (edited ago)
This guy fucking gets it.
edit: what's this...my very first downvoat? Holy shit it's about fucking time! Thanks!
[–] ratsmack 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
Um.... Tor is not a browser, it is the protocol and web of systems the a browser transits to obscure identity.
[–] HoneyNutStallmans 0 points 16 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago (edited ago)
He's talking about The Tor Browser, which is the official browser created with Tor and anonymity in mind, based on the Firefox ESR.
[–] meandrunk 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
TECHNICALLY correct, which is the best kind of correct. However it's pretty obvious he's talking about TBB.
[–] NoneOfTheAbove 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Well I'd say it's a browser in the same way Pale Moon or Epic are browsers. If I have tor running, I'm not going to say I'm on Firefox.
[–] ScreaminMime 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
They forgot to mention a blanket brand to put over your head while you type...
[–] cynoclast 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I'm not sure if you're mocking or not, but when Snowden did that in the documentary it was because he was being recorded on video. Recording someone typing their login is functionally indistinguishable from giving them your password. It wasn't paranoia, it was simple prudence in the face of understanding security. Does he do it when alone? probably not. But when you're being obviously recorded by a camera you know is present it's foolish not to.