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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: miet on May 09, 2012, 07:23 pm
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Hey, everyone I've done some searches but can't quite find what I'm looking for and tried some thing that haven't really worked.
I'm a noob looking to set-up a secure solution for SR/Darkweb using OS X. I have both an intel iMac running lion and a macbook running snow leopard. lots of USB sticks about etc. can someone point me in the direction of some good guides?
my initial plan was to set-up ubuntu on a secret true-crypt partition on a bootable USB stick. i couldn't get it work and it's slightly over my head tbh. i wanted to set up pgp on it, some kind of note system and password crypt? (all things i've read about but don't really know where to start).
which is the best route to go? could i wipe the whole of my old macbook drive and make that duel boot? wouldn't running a system off usb be slow and buggy?
any help would be much appreciated!
cheers very much. :)
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Running an OS off a USB will only be slow if it's not a live OS. Live OS's load their contents into RAM, which is both secure and pretty fast.
TAILS and Liberte work well for this. TAILS is much easier to get going on a Mac, though as far as I've read, it's not possible to use their new persistence mode, meaning you won't be able to save things to it, such as your GPG key. As a workaround, you could use a separate USB key with encryption to store all your important files. TAILS offers a built in encryption method, and you can also enable TrueCrypt on startup (see the documentation on the TAILS site).
Download unetbootin on your mac and use it to make a bootable copy of TAILS. Download and install refit so that you can boot it. If you have trouble, installing refit to another USB key (yes, this would be a total of three usb keys for you now) sometimes works.
If you want to go the route you were suggesting, try looking up a means to create a live copy of Ubuntu with persistence. This can be a tad difficult to get set up. If you just use the method of creating a bootable Ubuntu USB that's on their website, you'll wind up with no persistence and likely wear out your USB drive pretty quickly. It's my understanding that it's fairly difficult to encrypt the entirety of an OS, so you'd have to have an ecrypted bundle within Ubuntu to store your sensitive files as well as the Liberte/TAILS VM files. The VM may also leave traces of your activities outside of the encrypted areas.
Good luck.
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I have no clue when it comes to Mac OS....
Maybe take a look at this. It is a simple method for full disk encryption. Relatively easy to set up. Should run as dual boot...afaik
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/10/how-to-install-ubuntu-11-04-on-an-encrypted-lvm-file-system/
Works for ubuntu 12.04 as well
This way you got a complete OS that you can configure however you want. Tor, gpg... etc.Full encrypted.
Maybe look also into something called Tor isolated VM...I only found that atm..as an example
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBOX#DownloadpreconfiguredTorBOXimages
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/aczeskis/random/tor-hidden-service-vm.html
Just google a bit and maybe set something up yourself..
and maybe take a look at this...and stay away from liberte for now.
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=21858.0