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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: avenge on August 24, 2013, 12:22 am
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What security measure should absolutely be taken as a vendor, the obvious Like PGP, using tor on a thumb-drive and only on a pc dedicated to using tor preferably a small laptop with a hard drive with Secure Erase. other than those what Security measures should be followed?
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dont forget to bring a towel
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1. Don't Use Windows
2. Create a TrueCrypt Volume with hidden volume
3. Setup a VM in the hidden volume
4. Never do business outside of the hidden volume/VM.
If necessary, install your preferred version of Linux, then install Virtual Box and install a light-weight version of Linux in your VM for SR usel
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1. Don't Use Windows
2. Create a TrueCrypt Volume with hidden volume
3. Setup a VM in the hidden volume
Could you explain 2 and 3? I have never heard of TrueCrypt, hidden volume, or VM
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2. that question can be answered using the search engine of your chioce very easily.
3. i think what he means is, to run your OS out of that (true crypt) volume. Not a bad idea. But you can also just run it of a usb drive that has writing disabled. so no information can be stored on there.
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Buy yourself a small USB flash disk that is small enough to swallow or a micro-SD reader and 16GB card if your laptop supports booting from it (it's worth a try). Follow the tutorial on here about installing Tails to a USB disk, enable persistent storage and use a very long password. Use Tails for all your dealings, shut down your laptop and keep the disk hidden when you aren't using it.
Use encryption for all messages, use OTR on your phone and GPG on Silk Road. Protect your key backup with very strong passwords. Do not deal in meatspace or tell anyone there that you're dealing, blend in with regular mail and use different post boxes to post your shit.
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You'll need at least 20gb.. Whonix gateway + workstation + virtualbox will bring you a little under 20gigs 8)
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You'll need at least 20gb.. Whonix gateway + workstation + virtualbox will bring you a little under 20gigs
I successfully installed Whonix on a bootable 8GB USB stick. 16GB should be more than enough, even for future Whonix versions. Unlike my previous Whonix tutorial this USB stick can be used on all computers with modern AMD/Intel CPU and 4GB RAM. Should work on Macs with Intel/AMD too, but there may be a problem with the UEFI crap in the BIOS.
Partitioned the USB stick with EaseUS Partition Master, first partition ~1350MB FAT, second partition the rest (EXT3). Downloaded Xubuntu 12.04 Desktop and created a live system with persistent storage (~500MB) on the first partition by using UNetbootin (this won't work properly with PendriveLinux USB Installer). Then I booted Xubuntu and installed VirtualBox and TrueCrypt, creating a TrueCrypt container which fills the whole 2nd partition of the USB stick. Then I imported the Whonix applianaces to the TrueCrypt container.
It works well, but you should use a quality USB stick with decent speed (e.g. OCZ Rally2). If you only have some cheap CNMemory USB stick, forget about it. There will constantly be errors and the system hangs.
I'll post a step-by-step tutorial in future.
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Sorry you are actually correct in that statement Bazille, I was mistaken. For some reason I forget that they're virtual os not real ones :o .... just a side not but on a netbook expect it to be pretty slow though. I'd recommend at least a laptop.