11-18-2015, 07:26 PM
That's a good point about DNS. Is anyone running their own DNS (eg BIND) or using more secure/non-tracking public DNS?
A friend of mine swears by running TAILS (security focused version of linux with TOR built in - can be a boot CD that is entirely separate to your normal computer so no cookies to worry about). You can run TAILS as a virtual machine which saves rebooting, although this compromises security. He makes the compromise because he isn't doing anything especially secret/illegal. Whether you seriously need to worry about that is obviously a personal judgement.Â
BTW - Anyone listen to the Security Now podcast? Quite slow going, but some interesting issues. I question bits of the advice, but generally seems quite informative.
A friend of mine swears by running TAILS (security focused version of linux with TOR built in - can be a boot CD that is entirely separate to your normal computer so no cookies to worry about). You can run TAILS as a virtual machine which saves rebooting, although this compromises security. He makes the compromise because he isn't doing anything especially secret/illegal. Whether you seriously need to worry about that is obviously a personal judgement.Â
BTW - Anyone listen to the Security Now podcast? Quite slow going, but some interesting issues. I question bits of the advice, but generally seems quite informative.