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Re:So, you want to be a darknet drug lord by tablespoon on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:56PM (#30793314)
> Huge difference. Whonix consists of two VMs, one where you actually work and another which acts as a "router" sending all of your traffic out over Tor.

Honestly, it seems like it'd be safer just to run two different machines. IIRC, I saw some instructions a long time back for turning a small travel router into a OpenWrt-based Tor router.

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Re:So, you want to be a darknet drug lord by FGDSD on Thursday March 24, 2022 @02:25PM (#30793605)
That can be much better, but you should take care to not get deanonymized based on your hardware serial numbers. Less of a concern when working with VMs.
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Re:So, you want to be a darknet drug lord by digianarchist on Thursday March 24, 2022 @03:38PM (#30794415)
Correct. Whonix could be cloaked via a 0day in QEMU.
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