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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: HubertCumberdale on August 08, 2013, 08:54 pm

Title: Security
Post by: HubertCumberdale on August 08, 2013, 08:54 pm
I'm hoping someone with some real know how can help me out.

I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed on an encrypted hard drive, I have my router encrypted, no guest access - the works.

I'm also using TOR, no scripts, everything disabled.

What else can I do to amp up security shy of spending the extra money on a hardware firewall?
Title: Re: Security
Post by: 226278 on August 08, 2013, 08:58 pm
if you're a buyer is ok.. if you want to become a vendor. try more.  dont forget  use GPG/encrypt mails/data
.gl
Title: Re: Security
Post by: ripthesystem on August 08, 2013, 09:00 pm
encryption on any text based communications
but as has been said, for a buyer this is perfectly adequate
Title: Re: Security
Post by: tanamon on August 09, 2013, 04:45 am
I'm hoping someone with some real know how can help me out.

I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed on an encrypted hard drive, I have my router encrypted, no guest access - the works.

I'm also using TOR, no scripts, everything disabled.

What else can I do to amp up security shy of spending the extra money on a hardware firewall?

Switch to Tails or Whonix so it's a lot harder for an exploit to bypass Tor and get your real IP address, like what happened with Freedom Hosting.
Title: Re: Security
Post by: HubertCumberdale on August 09, 2013, 04:50 am
Which one is generally safer? And how hard is it to set them up?
Title: Re: Security
Post by: joolz on August 09, 2013, 04:54 am
they can be cracked tho? right   ???
Title: Re: Security
Post by: tanamon on August 09, 2013, 04:55 am
Whonix is safer. If you can install VirtualBox and import the images, you can run Whonix.
Title: Re: Security
Post by: tanamon on August 09, 2013, 04:57 am
I should add, here is the web site: https://whonix.org
Title: Re: Security
Post by: HubertCumberdale on August 09, 2013, 05:03 am
If I'm not mistaken, VMWare or Virtual Box is safer anyway because it can add a layer of protection over the Vlan port that's not normally there with your real Lan port.

Hooray layered protection.
Title: Re: Security
Post by: tanamon on August 09, 2013, 05:15 am
Yeah, it's safer to run Tor in separate VM too.