Hi Michelle, I'm sorry that you feel you've been maligned and attacked. We do try hard to make this a safe forum for everyone. For what it's worth, most of us here ARE a bit batty, each in our own way. Security and safety, along with reliability and usability, are also the reasons I use Linux. You're in good company there. I feel that Whonix+Qubes is over-engineering. I haven't had any responses to my email last night re TAILS+grsecurity (ALSO over-engineering), but TAILS' lack of persistence makes it a drag for day-to-day use; Whonix sacrifices some security for usability there. What problem are you trying to solve? What is your threat profile that you're trying to defend yourself against? If you're just trying to avoid bugs in your distro, you could just go with Debian Stable, which will give you a reliable, secure, and well-known system, with very few "tricky bits". E -- Securely sent with Tutanota. It's good, you should try it: https://tutanota.com 7. Jun 2016 15:43 by michelle400(a)orcon.net.nz:
Well when I looked at the mailing list page today I was totally shocked to find I'd been maligned and attacked. I know that that happens on other forums (yes I realize this is a mailing list) but I didn't think it would happen here. I guess that I just got schooled.
Perhaps I should say a few things. The only reason for me choosing Linux over windows is security and safety. It may be different for computer experts, but that's it for me.
So anyway I have Mint on my Toshiba and some months back I clicked to a page with info on Oprah Winfrey. The site then clicked on and off and on and off etc. I closed the page and opened history. Here the site was listed maybe 25 to 50 times. Then say that day or the next, my most used folder disappeared from it's space. I found it in the thrash. And that happened with maybe another couple of folders. Someone said that Mint had had problems with a bug/bugs this year/last year?
So anyway I presume that I caught a bug and that it's still there. (Don't worry,the emails I send on this phone and not the Toshiba). This happened inspite of the fact that I use Mozilla, adblock and NoScript, although they may not have been up to date. Computer experts, if their machine gets infected may be able to debug it and be confident that it's clear, but I can't. I figure the best way to protect myself from now on is to have the safest set up from the start. And from a bit of research I did on the net it appears that that maybe Whonix and Qubes.
On 2016-06-07 06:53, Paul Wilson wrote:
I would be trending to a tent inside a faraday cage, at least 50kms from the nearest populated town. :p
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On 6/06/2016, at 11:41 PM, Eric Light <>> eric(a)ericlight.com>> > wrote:
YES I FIND THIS MUCH LESS ANNOYING, THANKS WILLIAM ��
Battiness aside, I suspect the answer to Michelle's problem isn't Whonix on Qubes on an old laptop. It sounds like excessive engineering for no good reason. Did anyone else have similar thoughts?
If I were going full-on paranoia mode, I'd be running TAILS, probably with a grsecurity-patched kernel, and probably through an offshore VPN. What do you guys think?
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