Should have asked “Are ANY Linux distros more SECURE than Windows?” because I doubt it.
Honestly none.
Linux doesn’t have proper secure boot by default, it doesn’t leverage the tpm by default or enable encryption by default, or combine the 3 for a secure boot chain.
Windows home vastly beats most Linux distributions out of the box, it has a full chain of trust at boot, good defaults and has the entire might of Microsoft.
Secure blue may beat Windows in some areas, but it’s not as easy as Windows.
You can configure Linux to be secure, but it won’t beat Windows when you use windows enterprise, using in tune and App locker.
Privacy however, that’s a different matter…
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This is a really helpful reply: thank you! I’m happy to see the SecureBlue dev talking about the exact question I asked, and I didn’t know about the GOS thing. The GOS option seems like a bit of a niche approach, and I wonder at how much the things that come with that will get in my way, but I’m still happy to know it exists. If desktop GOS is easy to drive, then maybe it’s a cool thing that more people should know about.
Side note, I didn’t know GOS was contentious here.
This is really insightful: Thank you!
The vetted software repository is a point I didn’t know about before today. Downloading software on Windows is, in fact, a bit stressful.
I like the relevant xkcd, lol. I’ve been thinking about it.
The Payout chart is a lot, but it seems like a valuable thing to chew on. Though I can somewhat parse the acronyms, I don’t know a lot of the other words within the boxes. If you think this chart is often discussed and important for a person with my considerations to understand, point me to some conversations about it, and maybe I’ll try to deepen my knowledge. (Firefox+Tor are more expensive to crack on Linux? Cool Fact!
You’re right, and by unresolved, I mean that he isn’t here, but he can come back any time: i.e. the guy isn’t pulling anything right now, but there is nothing stopping him from pulling anything. I’ve tried extensively to advocate and better my situation, but for various reasons, have seen nothing but failure. I meet more people who feel sympathetic to my cause than unsympathetic, but also far more people unwilling to act than willing. It’s life in a state of constant tension and exhaustion.
Thanks for the insight! If by that you mean that sane/common defaults alongside good privacy/security hygiene are generally enough against such an adversary, then it’s relieving at least.
Yeah, there were plenty of stupid deanonymizing blunders from me, as it was from before I knew anything about anything.
Though I don’t think there were break-ins involving credentials or passwords, the issue is that now there are a group of well-connected people with some power who may be incentivized to find out more. In short, the main undertaking these days isn’t finding out what dumb thing I did, but cleaning up from now, and seeing how much I can still cut ties with this tainted identity. I have no idea if I was depseudononymized.
I would recommend just getting it from z-library. You can find the address by looking up z-library on reddit. Yes, it’s a pirate site, but they have an onion address you can use with the Tor browser (or Brave desktop if you prefer).
It’s important to use the correct domain of the website, because most versions are scams.
You can see the scam versions and the official ones here. This is the dedicated subreddit to z library. For more general guides about the website you can check here.
If you use a VPN and it says that downloads for the IP address are finished, close the browser, search it again and just change the country until it works.
Otherwise, for the book Extreme privacy, you can go to Anna’s Archive and you won’t encounter this problem.
I got it from fhmy .net and from r/piracy, so it should be legitimate.
Better yet, If you can afford it, consider supporting the author and his countless hours of labor to publish his 590 page work by purchasing the Extreme Privaacy PDF book directly from him:
Piracy is the very reason the author gave for ceasing to publish many of his other helpful books.
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