Hi, Some people know me by name in the Matrix room. I am working on the Windows Guide for PG. I am following Windows Hardening and Privacy Guide by Beerisgood on Github for this. I worked a lot on it. But due to many conflicts in the PR. I closed it and working on the same in a new one. I would li…

There are a number of community-written Windows guides now published here: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/tags/c/community-wiki/9411/windows This is how we are going to move forward: If you have a problem with or suggestion for one of the community-written guides at the link above, please r…

IMO Microsoft Surface for business should be recommended over other WIndows PC because it has 6 years firmware support, is secured-core certified and has open sourced UEFI. There’s no privacy without security and you cannot use Windows privately on Lenovo X230 (jk Also, pls donot forget to mention …

I think Dell has a similar support policy, around 5-6 years too.

[image] anon34108895: IMO Microsoft Surface for business should be recommended over other WIndows PC because it has 6 years firmware support, is secured-core certified and has open sourced UEFI. Do you have a source for these? Afaik most Microsoft Surfaces are not secured-core and I remember …

6 years support secured-core for surface FOR BUSINESS (no,surface for consumers aka surface is not secured core) Project mu

yes but when win32 app isolation is out of preview it’ll be a HUGE security feature as you can isolate nearly every win32 app by yourself. I donot know if you can isolate every traditional app on Linux. afaik for macOS, the only thing you can do to improve app sandbox is to only install apps from ma…

[image] 'Hardening' Windows Questions imo if you’re short of time, at least you should read complete privacy settings for Windows , security baseline for Microsoft products , privacy settings for Edge , privacy settings for Office this answer of mine may be helpful to…

I think you can. Im still not sure on the specifics (see my question on this topic ), but it can be done with some combination of firejail, bubblewrap, and/or Apparmor.

after some search I cannot find any related claim made by Dell, HP or Lenovo

There are some additional suggestions. Currently I donot have a github account so I cannot submit a pr. use a secured-core devices with timely firmware support. my personal reccomendation is surface for business series. turn on Smart App Control . if you have privacy concerns, skip this and use WDA…

As a Windows user I totally agree that it needs a lot of time and effort to harden Windows and make it more private. If you take a look into Microsoft Security Baseline, there are hundreds of recommended policies. Also different people have different threat models and choices, especially Windows Def…

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