For my phone, I use Graphene OS. What would be the best desktop Linux option to match the level of security and privacy that GOS provides?

  • @[email protected]
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    Tails in proxmox in tails running on pure ramdrive system with no longterm storage, cpu, bios, mac serials overwritten with FFFFFFF, TPM chip desoldered or lasered off CPU, connected to TOR viato mullvad paid with crypto, through VPN running left behind sanitized device hidden in a library, through second sanitized vpn device connected to private insecure wifi in poor residential area with no cameras, after abolishing the state

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    QubesOS for security, Tails for privacy. These are both very extreme options though and most likely overkill for the average person

  • 👁️👄👁️
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    161 year ago

    Pretty much any distro that isn’t Ubuntu. Are you asking for privacy or security? Those are very different.

    For security, I’d stick to more complete distros like Fedora instead of more diy distros like NixOS or Arch. They’re great to learn and tinker with, but distros like Fedora have security experts adding mitigations and security stuff in the distro by default, whereas most users of Arch or something would have to manually look up those things and keep up to date on the latest security. So basically, none of them lol.

    Using more hardcore security distros like QubesOS is not very realistic as a daily driver. You’ll see Linux nerds name drop it and claim they know what they’re talking about, but none of them will actually dailt drive it because it’s a very painful experience. Just stick with flatpaks as much as you can for pretty solid security.

    • @gobbling871
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      What security stuff/mitigations are added on Fedora that are not on Ubuntu?

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        Ubuntu is bad privacy-wise because it has opt-out telemetry. The telemetry is not very invasive though and I wouldn’t really call it a privacy risk. There are other reasons to prefer other distros over Ubuntu though

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            51 year ago

            You’re right. This only counts users though whereas Ubuntu collects information about your system

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            11 year ago

            Counting users based on their ip VS selling user search queries to amazon (i know it got changed to opt-in, but that’s a massive stain on their reputation as far as I’m concerned)

        • @gobbling871
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          11 year ago

          My question is simple: Which of these security features are not enabled/present in Ubuntu that give Fedora an advantage?

          SELinux has a functional equivalent called Apparmor that is also enabled out of the box in most distros.

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            Selinux is more secure then app armor, but more difficult to use. Ubuntu is also pretty secure, I’m just not as familiar with it. I mentioned it for the privacy but, since it used to have some Amazon bloat crapped bundled and telemetry built in.

            • @gobbling871
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              I have nothing against your personal preferences. But maybe compare today’s Ubuntu vs Fedora. It would be a much more fair comparison.

        • @gobbling871
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          Nope. GP explicitly mentioned security experts that Fedora employs and other security stuff that Fedora apparently has an advantage on over other distros. I wonder if they knew in particular what these advantages are because that got me curious.

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            11 year ago

            Read their comment again. The first paragraph is about privacy and Ubuntu is only mentioned at that point. Fedora’s default security is only compared to nix and arch.

            • @gobbling871
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              01 year ago

              I used Ubuntu as an example for argument’s sake not as a defence for Ubuntu’s privacy/security features.

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  • ManyRoads
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    If you look through this thread, you may notice that almost everything is biased towards personal preference(s). I recommend you research for those aspects of security AND privacy that interest you and select the tools, distros that you prefer. The beauty of Linux lies in its variety. Use what pleases you and serves your needs.

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    51 year ago

    Nix OS, Guix or Vanilla OS for sandboxing I guess. But basically everything but Ubuntu is pretty good for privacy, it’s a big part of free software philosophy.

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      11 year ago

      While Ubuntu is not the best for privacy, it is still miles ahead of any Mac or Windows device is in my opinion.

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        I mean, neither Microsoft nor Apple were stupid enough to sell user data to Amazon. I’d love to see how the Linux community would’ve responded to that, because I doubt they’d have the same “oh but it’s opt in now, so it’s ok” reaction.

  • Radioactive Radio
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    41 year ago

    Try Tails, you don’t even gotta install it. Keep it on a flash drive and just plug it into your computer whenever you wanna use it.

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    Depends on what you mean for security/privacy. You can use Tails or whatever and have everything encrypted and then just be logging into your Facebook account on Chrome without an ad blocker.

    Most Linux distros are secure enough for the average person who isn’t being targeted by some crazy state level actor. If you’re particularly concerned stick with a distro that has a security team like Debian. As for privacy that has more to do with the sites you browse and have accounts with but obviously avoid Google (I just use Firefox instead of Chrome) use an adblocker like ublock origin, along with maybe something like decentraleyes.

    • @Synthead
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      Chrome phones home a lot. It’s not a good idea to use it if you care about privacy. Firefox even has metrics enabled by default, although you can turn them off.

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    21 year ago

    How does Void Linux rate on the security and privacy front compared to the top recommendations in this thread?

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    The best for privacy are: Tails, that runs on live-cd; Whonix, which you run in vms; Qubes, which is an os that runs all your user programs inside vms (running whonix inside qubes is the most powerful privacy setup).

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    How many privacy/security are we talking about? Because if you want to go “full ham” on both, then any minimal install + docker + lynx as your main (and only) access to the internet (with “nobody” set as the main user) + a rpi 4 (with openwrt) serving as “middleman” routing access from your router to it, and to your PC. Oh, and using only dumb phones and avoiding any wireless-related stuff.