this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
1289 points (98.4% liked)
Technology
59217 readers
2864 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm certain there are people who use Tor in a way that it would make sense to use a secure OS.
But I use Tor to get around stupid public wifis and suchlike that have content blockers. I'm not scared that the police are going to beat the shit out of me so I just use Windows or Android.
Found the white guy!
@arc
I'm confused about what you meant by your last sentence. Are you trying to throw a hint that using distros such as Whonix and Tails means you will be doing something illegal?
I'm not afraid of the police coming after me because I've done nothing wrong. One of the reasons I use Linux distros and distros that are specialized like Whonix and Tails is because I value my privacy which Windows won't give you.
No, I'm making a comment about the word "securely" in the post I responded to. i.e. "Secure" means different things for different people.
I like to use Tor on occasion for the reason stated but I'm sure as hell not booting up an OS to do it for my use case. That would be inconvenient especially as I'm using Tor to subvert a stupid netnanny, and not endangering myself or putting myself in legal peril. So using Tor this way is plenty secure - I can hold a secure conversation with a website of my choosing without netnanny interfering.
Other use cases may vary and your need for "secure". Maybe you absolutely value your privacy above all else, or are up to something you don't want others to know about. In which case do, go and use Tails or whatever.