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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: HubertCumberdale on August 08, 2013, 08:54 pm
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I'm hoping someone with some real know how can help me out.
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed on an encrypted hard drive, I have my router encrypted, no guest access - the works.
I'm also using TOR, no scripts, everything disabled.
What else can I do to amp up security shy of spending the extra money on a hardware firewall?
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if you're a buyer is ok.. if you want to become a vendor. try more. dont forget use GPG/encrypt mails/data
.gl
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encryption on any text based communications
but as has been said, for a buyer this is perfectly adequate
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I'm hoping someone with some real know how can help me out.
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed on an encrypted hard drive, I have my router encrypted, no guest access - the works.
I'm also using TOR, no scripts, everything disabled.
What else can I do to amp up security shy of spending the extra money on a hardware firewall?
Switch to Tails or Whonix so it's a lot harder for an exploit to bypass Tor and get your real IP address, like what happened with Freedom Hosting.
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Which one is generally safer? And how hard is it to set them up?
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they can be cracked tho? right ???
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Whonix is safer. If you can install VirtualBox and import the images, you can run Whonix.
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I should add, here is the web site: https://whonix.org
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If I'm not mistaken, VMWare or Virtual Box is safer anyway because it can add a layer of protection over the Vlan port that's not normally there with your real Lan port.
Hooray layered protection.
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Yeah, it's safer to run Tor in separate VM too.