• baduhai
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            8 months ago

            Tails is meant neither for gaming, nor self hosting. It’s meant for secure private personal computing.

            Key benefits (IMO):

            • Amnesiac session
            • Encrypted persistent optional storage
            • System-wide tor
            • Censorship bypassing (through tor)
            • Portable
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                8 months ago

                Honestly, if what you want is general computing, it’s rarely worth it to go with a super secure OS for daily usage. Qubes is probably the closest you’d get, but even then, the tradeoffs of using a system that forces you to be secure are too much.

                What I’d recommend instead is to have you standard use general purpose OS (if you’re happy with mint, stick with it) and also have a secure OS (tails, qubes, etc) handy for purposes that you deem necessary, he it online banking, cold storing your bitcoin, whatever you want.

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          8 months ago

          Good luck blocking tor. Not impossible, but very difficult.

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            8 months ago

            not hard at all if you’re the ISP

            just flag any traffic originating from outside your registered addresses

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              8 months ago

              I guess blocking known tor realys is easy enough, but blocking unknown relays is not as easy. They could still be blocked, if traffic is being analysed with deep packet inspection. In that situation, I’m not entirely sure but, there are probably ways to obfuscate your traffic.

              At the end of the day, 100% blocking tor is very difficult, but making tor too difficult to use for 99% of users is much easier.

              The only foolproof way to completely block tor I can think of is to intranet your whole country, north korea style.