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Re:Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security by musicale on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:52PM (#37513146)
> Whonix is unanimously considered the best Linux distribution in terms of privacy and security

"Unanimously?" By whom?

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Re:Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security by pmarreck on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:46PM (#37513894)
The anonymous authority, of course! ;)
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Re:Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security by heywoodlh on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:32PM (#37517563)
*Unonymously
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Re:Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security by ehvatum on Thursday September 14, 2023 @04:20PM (#37514321)
By the ones doing the considering. We get together every spring in Lucern to revise the Book of Considerations.
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Re:Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security by paravirtualized on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:04AM (#37520308)
> "Unanimously?" By whom?

By anyone who has read and understood the technical design pages.[1][2][3]

[1]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Technical_Introduction

[2]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Threat_Model

[3]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others

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Re:Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security by musicale on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:09PM (#37531675)
Those citations appear to be from a single source: the project's own web site.

They might be accurate, but they are not impartial evidence for unanimity or even broad consensus.

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