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originally posted by: tjack
How about pgp, mixmaster, nym servers and chained remailers? Anybody out there still play with those toys? Now THAT was net anonymity.
That's how we did it 20 years ago to chat about growing something something. Very robust security!
I wonder if usenet is still even a thing...🤔
Some cookies known as super cookies embed themselves deep in your OS and can nigh on be impossible to remove if you don't know what you are looking for.
People complain that they change the privacy settings on Windows 10, and updates reset them:
originally posted by: Adreamunfulfilled
I highly recommend following his tutorial for changing Windows 10 settings to make your privacy more secure.
Independent security experts favor Linux over either Windows or macOS, explaining all the reasons why is an article in itself. We’ll touch on two of the big reasons most pros favor Linux over Windows and macOS, then zoom in on Linux distros.
Two of the biggest reasons experts say Linux is more secure than Windows or macOS are that Linux:
Is Built on Open Source Software
Is a “Small” Target for Hackers
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The most popular operating systems and programs usually have the weakest privacy protections. But they also work with the most websites and have the most support. This makes them ideal targets for the bad guys.
Worse, the makers of these operating systems and programs often want your PII for their own uses. Remember the uproar when people saw what data Windows 10 collects about its users?
Moving to a Linux Distro eliminates many privacy and security problems.
The kid on "War Games" was just having fun when he almost blew up the planet, but that movie was noted for having done some actual research into hackers of the day.
originally posted by: Adreamunfulfilled
originally posted by: tjack
How about pgp, mixmaster, nym servers and chained remailers? Anybody out there still play with those toys? Now THAT was net anonymity.
That's how we did it 20 years ago to chat about growing something something. Very robust security!
I wonder if usenet is still even a thing...🤔
I was still a kid back when Usenet was a thing. I remember good times as a sysop of a local BBS a couple kids from school and I kept up. We even made a few bugs and hacked into the primitive computer network in school back in the day. Nothing malicious, just all for fun. We basically ran the network for the teachers anyway.
originally posted by: Adreamunfulfilled
Also a program that is quite helpful is the following:
O&O ShutUp10: Free antispy tool for Windows 10
After a fresh install of Windows all old user accounts are out. Don't long into your decades old email, whatever. Download a web browser such as FireFox and install privacy extensions such as: Ghostery, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere. Then add a VPN.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
People complain that they change the privacy settings on Windows 10, and updates reset them:
answers.microsoft.com...
Windows 10 Privacy settings constantly reset to default with every update
Maybe one option worth considering is using an operating system that doesn't completely destroy privacy by default, like Windows 10 does.
Why is Linux better than Windows or macOS?
Independent security experts favor Linux over either Windows or macOS, explaining all the reasons why is an article in itself. We’ll touch on two of the big reasons most pros favor Linux over Windows and macOS, then zoom in on Linux distros.
Two of the biggest reasons experts say Linux is more secure than Windows or macOS are that Linux:
Is Built on Open Source Software
Is a “Small” Target for Hackers
The last one is the only real truth. Open Source software is just ... software. It has bugs, like all software does.
So not only are security, privacy, and anonymity potential reasons to switch from Windows to Linux, but also reliability is the reason the Space Station changed to Linux:
Ground control to Major Tux: Space station dumps Windows, now uses Linux
Linux might be faster too as this article explains:
This shouldn't come as any great surprise, but Linux is faster than Windows, and at least one anonymous Microsoft developer is willing to admit it and explain why that's the case.
It can be much faster, especially if you use a really lightweght distro with a lightweight desktop environment...
The biggest threat to privacy and security probably isn't the operating system though, it's probably the user since some exploits rely on social engineering.
This, times 1,000, is the bottom line.
Good post...
Critics like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Libreboot developers, and security expert Damien Zammit accused the ME of being a backdoor and a privacy concern.[94][4][95] Zammit stresses that the ME has full access to memory (without the owner-controlled CPU cores having any knowledge); has full access to the TCP/IP stack and can send and receive network packets independently of the operating system, thus bypassing its firewall.[6]