Be Anonymous Online With The Tails Operating System DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Tim
I'm by no means an expert on this subject but I don't think your statement at the beginning of the video regarding the security of VMs -A VM is only secure if the underlying host is secure and the hypervisor is free and open source software- (may not be the word to word literally quote). So first things first: open source software is NOT necessarily more secure (especially not 100% secure). Yes I understand the argument for security of open source software: -more eyes on the code- and I can see that this can lead to increased security over proprietary software. However, both proprietary software and open source software are done by humans and if the project is big enough you will probably encounter security flaws at some point. The second point of this statement, that if the host os is insecure the VM is insecure also doesn't necessarily have to be the case. I'm not an expert on VMs and OSs, but I'd imagine that in order to exploit the vulnerability of the host OS a VM needs to have an exploitable connection to the host OS. I would be very surprised if this was the case for any -serious- virtualization Software. Virtualization in the server world is a wide spread custom and I would guess that the benefit of security by having an enclosed virtual system is one of the reasons. I know for a fact that many chemistry companies (at least in Germany and probably other countries and industries too) use windows as host os and as virtual machines (often VMware). I mean obviously you can never really be sure if there are security leaks, but I would be surprised if windows and VMware did not try to do a good job in security.
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I'm by no means an expert on this subject but I don't think your statement at the beginning of the video regarding the security of VMs -A VM is only secure if the underlying host is secure and the hypervisor is free and open source software- (may not be the word to word literally quote). So first things first: open source software is NOT necessarily more secure (especially not 100% secure). Yes I understand the argument for security of open source software: -more eyes on the code- and I can see that this can lead to increased security over proprietary software. However, both proprietary software and open source software are done by humans and if the project is big enough you will probably encounter security flaws at some point. The second point of this statement, that if the host os is insecure the VM is insecure also doesn't necessarily have to be the case. I'm not an expert on VMs and OSs, but I'd imagine that in order to exploit the vulnerability of the host OS a VM needs to have an exploitable connection to the host OS. I would be very surprised if this was the case for any -serious- virtualization Software. Virtualization in the server world is a wide spread custom and I would guess that the benefit of security by having an enclosed virtual system is one of the reasons. I know for a fact that many chemistry companies (at least in Germany and probably other countries and industries too) use windows as host os and as virtual machines (often VMware). I mean obviously you can never really be sure if there are security leaks, but I would be surprised if windows and VMware did not try to do a good job in security.
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Modelkit
Thank you for this video and all your contributions I discovered a week or so ago. I am with Linux since Ubuntu 10.04, so not very long but long enough to get an inkling. I have never been a -Poweruser- coming from Ubuntu and Debian based systems like Mint etc to Manjaro based systems like PCLinuxOS and now, because of you (bugger) I am on EndeavourOS with I3 Window manager (Nnomad is just a step to far at the moment).
Living in South Africa the community is small and dispersed (more so since Corona) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your videos and contributions. I enjoy most of them a lot ..... but boy - you speak fast. Think of us 2nd and 3rd language watchers .... just as a pointer. Of course i can just slow down the playback speed.
I wish you much success.
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Thank you for this video and all your contributions I discovered a week or so ago. I am with Linux since Ubuntu 10.04, so not very long but long enough to get an inkling. I have never been a -Poweruser- coming from Ubuntu and Debian based systems like Mint etc to Manjaro based systems like PCLinuxOS and now, because of you (bugger) I am on EndeavourOS with I3 Window manager (Nnomad is just a step to far at the moment).
Living in South Africa the community is small and dispersed (more so since Corona) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your videos and contributions. I enjoy most of them a lot ..... but boy - you speak fast. Think of us 2nd and 3rd language watchers .... just as a pointer. Of course i can just slow down the playback speed.
I wish you much success.
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(RTP)
To those commenting -but... but... using Tails or Tor puts you on a list!- consider this: -Linux Journal- was on 'list' as -extremist-... Come on now? just not using Windows classifies someone? and, the word -CLOUD- was also flagged on said leaked list... Bottom line is this: we are all in this Human Rights thing, together. The more we use things like Tor Browser for our normal browsing activity, the more hay we add to the haystack. We have the Right to privacy. Privacy is fundamental to being a free person. A fundamental Human Right according to the United Nations themselves. Use Tor more, not less. Be the change you want to see.
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To those commenting -but... but... using Tails or Tor puts you on a list!- consider this: -Linux Journal- was on 'list' as -extremist-... Come on now? just not using Windows classifies someone? and, the word -CLOUD- was also flagged on said leaked list... Bottom line is this: we are all in this Human Rights thing, together. The more we use things like Tor Browser for our normal browsing activity, the more hay we add to the haystack. We have the Right to privacy. Privacy is fundamental to being a free person. A fundamental Human Right according to the United Nations themselves. Use Tor more, not less. Be the change you want to see.
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Koos
I don't think it is just other countries that have this issue. I think censorship and persecution is being made more popular worldwide. I believe that it was on the same show where the Canadian prime minister called a certain group of people names, that a boy said that these people should be jailed and a young girl said that all their possessions should be taken, and then the audience applauded. But I just came here because I already have Batocera on one usb and was wandering what I could do with another empty usb.
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I don't think it is just other countries that have this issue. I think censorship and persecution is being made more popular worldwide. I believe that it was on the same show where the Canadian prime minister called a certain group of people names, that a boy said that these people should be jailed and a young girl said that all their possessions should be taken, and then the audience applauded. But I just came here because I already have Batocera on one usb and was wandering what I could do with another empty usb.
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MrDanderskoff
Are there any white papers/write ups/etc that shows how TAILS handles caching the information? If you're super concerned about anonymity then physical evidence would also be a concern. If it caches everything you're doing on the USB/whatever storage space, then even if it's a live OS you'll still have residual data left in the storage space that can be recovered. If it doesn't have a scrub function when it loads itself that would be surprising for something so geared towards security.
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Are there any white papers/write ups/etc that shows how TAILS handles caching the information? If you're super concerned about anonymity then physical evidence would also be a concern. If it caches everything you're doing on the USB/whatever storage space, then even if it's a live OS you'll still have residual data left in the storage space that can be recovered. If it doesn't have a scrub function when it loads itself that would be surprising for something so geared towards security.
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Rubber
Instead of a persistent volume since using Tails you are already trading convenience for privacy i would think that using a separate encrypted USB would be better from a privacy standpoint. Then if you wanted to add back a layer of convenience back, on the encrypted drive write a simple BASH script to mount the directories where they would be used.
If anyone has a reason that this wouldn't be a good idea please let me know, I'm always looking for other ways to do things.
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Instead of a persistent volume since using Tails you are already trading convenience for privacy i would think that using a separate encrypted USB would be better from a privacy standpoint. Then if you wanted to add back a layer of convenience back, on the encrypted drive write a simple BASH script to mount the directories where they would be used.
If anyone has a reason that this wouldn't be a good idea please let me know, I'm always looking for other ways to do things.
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vida
I have not made a comment on any news websites or forums ever. And i deleted sosial media in the beginning of 2019. I only play some closed source games on my samsung phone. But the rest is open souce and profile/log free. If i google my name it only come up other people. I have struggeld to get a job since i have refused to take those online brain tests they want you to take but got work 3 months ago.
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I have not made a comment on any news websites or forums ever. And i deleted sosial media in the beginning of 2019. I only play some closed source games on my samsung phone. But the rest is open souce and profile/log free. If i google my name it only come up other people. I have struggeld to get a job since i have refused to take those online brain tests they want you to take but got work 3 months ago.
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Anders
Notice that Thor only hide where you are surfing from. But it doens't protect the contents. So you STILL need to encrypt your communications. That is a common missconception, that just because your IP is protected your data is. But no, it isn't. Some protocol even send you login name and IP address. So you need to encrypt the transfer.
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Notice that Thor only hide where you are surfing from. But it doens't protect the contents. So you STILL need to encrypt your communications. That is a common missconception, that just because your IP is protected your data is. But no, it isn't. Some protocol even send you login name and IP address. So you need to encrypt the transfer.
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BrunoDSL
I would be very careful with selling the Tor network like that. It may have been secure when it first started, but nowadays it's trivial to de-anonymize users of it by directing them to specific nodes, since you have no control over it and nodes are run by people that may or may not have malicious intents, governments, etc.
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I would be very careful with selling the Tor network like that. It may have been secure when it first started, but nowadays it's trivial to de-anonymize users of it by directing them to specific nodes, since you have no control over it and nodes are run by people that may or may not have malicious intents, governments, etc.
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Tvrtko
Great video-
Exellently explained essence of Tails. I have tried it few times out of curiosity. I live in relatively safe country and don't need it daily but still make monthly donations to them just because I belive that it is a great project.
All the best to you, keep making great videos!
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Great video-
Exellently explained essence of Tails. I have tried it few times out of curiosity. I live in relatively safe country and don't need it daily but still make monthly donations to them just because I belive that it is a great project.
All the best to you, keep making great videos!
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