(CLEARNET) https://hackernoon.com/the-2017-pentester-guide-to-windows-10-privacy-security-cf734c510b8d
I've been super excited about TAILS 3.0 since I heard about it being released. I can't wait to upgrade to it once my supported Luxor drive comes in the mail (thanks /u/My_s3cr3t for that supported USB drive post!).
However, all too often, I hear and read about people not understanding why those with good OPSEC are using TAILS. It really isn't hard to get TAILS set up and running. The hardest part of the learning curve is simply getting it written to a USB drive, setting up persistent storage, and/or changing your boot order in BIOS. It shouldn't take more than an hour (excluding download times) to get TAILS set up and booted.
But even then, too many users stick besides their Windows 10 installation, living in a fantasy of false security, not realizing how bad Windows 10 actually is. We aren't living in the land of the paranoid, Win10 is ACTUALLY as bad as we say it is, and then probably more so.
I'd copy and paste this article for the paranoid-minded, but its far too long to do so, and the page loads just fine without JavaScript and over Tor.
I'm sure you wouldn't have to do all of this necessarily for DNM purposes, but if you wanted your Win10 system as secure as a Pentester's Linux Distro, which is realistically the only level of security tightening I'd be comfortable with when perusing the DNM on a Win10 machine, the amount of work you have to do is mind-numbing.
tl;dr DONT FUCKING USE WINDOWS 10, BUY A $7 FLASH DRIVE, AND INSTALL TAILS 3.0 GODDAMMIT!
still tl;dr Microsoft is evil.
I use windows 10 and have done a massive amount of illegal stuff on it. If windows was really spying on you like everyone says then I would be in prison right now. Or at least had a visit from the NSA.