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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Declarative OS, tmpfs root, disabled sudo

How do you change anything about the OS/do updates? iirc nixos requires elevated privileges for that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

With Debian it's just the apt-tor package, and the project maintains an official list at.. onion.debian.org iirc?
I don't know if serving onion traffic is more expensive for Debian/mirror maintainers so idk if this is something everybody should use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But also gentrified lesbian checking in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

What do the others use? Surely no proletarian would be so counterrevolutionary to use X

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

💜KDE💜

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But if steam is proprietary, and windows is proprietary, and I mainly use steam anyway, does it even matter?

What's a DE?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is it possible to use any of the two wired? Or are there better wired alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I think Heads (osresearch.net) uses security keys as a kind of substitute TPM, however that only works if you replace your - supported - PCs firmware with it.
I don't know too much about how this works in particular, so I can't really compare it. safeboot.dev recommends Heads where possible, which I understand is partly due to safeboot relying on proprietary firmware implementations, while Heads uses libre software for the most part. Sadly the Heads firmware only supports older models/CPUs, which afaik don't receive (all) microcode updates, including one which weakens the IOMMU.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, with a TPM. A TPM (2.0) can seal secrets and only release it when a machine fulfills certain configuration and state requirements (saved into registers called PCRs).
For example: make the decryption key one part dependant on a passphrase you memorized (to not only rely on a TPM), and one part on something saved in a TPM. If you select the correct PCRs when saving the latter, and your TPM works as advertised (and doesn't offer an easy way to eavesdrop/fool it), removing the battery would make the TPM not release the secret (if removing the battery even still works on modern machines).
However, this depends on having a unified kernel image, having configured dm-verity and maybe more stuff I don't recall right now. Probably should also make sure you don't allow Microsoft's Secure Boot keys and instead only your own. I hope this will get easier in the future, but I know SystemD is actively developing useful tools for that (e.g. ukify).
That all doesn't mean the critique of TPMs (intransparent, proprietary) is invalid. Maybe we'll have OpenTitan based TPMs at some point?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

See safeboot.dev for a project which tries to fix this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

LUKS doesn't protect you from an evil maid attack. It hides your data when your stuff gets stolen in a powered off state, but it provides neither verification of data, nor does it provide verified/secure/safe boot.
In simple terms: the very first thing which gets loaded needs to be unencrypted (barring some exceptions I will omit here), which can get replaced with an evil version by the evil maid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Why is this an issue for you? Taking stuff and remixing it is how new stuff gets made. Nintendo surely won't go into bankruptcy anytime soon.

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