If you are using a reasonable OS like Debian, which is fully encrypted with whatever defaults given on there and you encrypt your documents with a VeraCrypt container, when you open the document inside the VeraCrypt container, you will leak this file all over the system in form of various temporary …

[image] cooldude: Is it possible to open it in a way that it never leaves the container? I think Qubes would be a better solution for what you’re asking if this is really what you want or how you want it to be. [image] cooldude: I mean you could open it in Tails by making a copy on the h…

[image] anon57862721: Its only your phone if that and very rarely are people asked. And its never your computer. But I don’t know your threat model. If thinking about this is warranted for you, I feel like you have a much higher threat model and hence would only recommend you stick with Tails if…

Well, in that case and for such threat models, ephemeral OS’s are the answer. Save everything on a cloud based drive that’s private and secure for your threat model.

[image] cooldude: I can confirm people have been asked to decrypt their laptops on certain airports, so this explains the rest. What country requires decrypting laptops at the airport??? How would they even know it’s encrypted??? Just curious…

[image] tiredMuppet: What country requires decrypting laptops at the airport??? How would they even know it’s encrypted??? Just curious… We already have a thread about this: [image] Cellebrite app left on phone after police seized it, rookie mistake? shieldGeneral …

In GNOME settings (at least in Fedora) there is the File History and Trash. I guess you can disable it when you don’t want sensitive data to leak. [Screenshot From 2025-09-29 20-15-07] I also dont know how good their implementation is. Its just that its a switch and so far it seems to work when i…

Thanks for sharing the link! I missed this one!

You mentioned tails, but booting into any live-OS would work. If I remember correctly you can edit grub to add an entry for an iso image on your hard disk, so you could choose at boot to boot into the live OS. Of course you could also use a VM with a live os too, but if you’re concerned about exploi…

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We already have a thread about this:

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