Re:How to access the Darknet. The safe way
by birdperson on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @03:18PM
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> Use a secure OS... A liveUSB of Tails is pretty idiot proof.
That implies Tails is very secure. Why is that? Is it because it has never been hacked before or has Tails been shown to be virtually hacker-proof? As someone non-technical I might be misunderstanding something. If so, can you clarify that?
Thanks.
Re:How to access the Darknet. The safe way
by jarboot on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @03:31PM
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Tails is intended to be run on a USB drive. This means you can take nearly any computer, boot to usb, and have a operating system designed for security running in the computer's RAM. Many claim that this does not leave a trace of your activity in the computer itself.
It also comes with tor browser, electrum bitcoin wallet, and some GPG utilities preinstalled.
Re:How to access the Darknet. The safe way
by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:13PM
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Tails works well enough for the average noob. It isn't perfect, but a far cry better than them running torbrowser on their everyday windows machine.
(1) Use a secure OS. Unless you are security guru, that should be some flavour of linux. A liveUSB of Tails is pretty idiot proof. It worked for Snowden.
(2) Don't run any web browser, tor or otherwise, under any sort of elevated privilege (ie not while admin).
(3) Understand how to verify a website's certificates. You can indeed log into social media safely via tor (ie your password won't be harvested by the exit node) if you know how to verify the website.
(4) Don't take anonymity casually. Understand why you are using Tor, what you are protecting, who your adversary is, and develop relevant procedures. Don't rely on easy checklists you find at Tor-for-Dummies.com.