On Saturday 24 April 2021 16:49:22 Michael via tde-users wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2021 12:02:09 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2021 09:25:41 Michael via tde-users wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2021 08:19:50 am William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
Does anybody have some idea what may have changed, since I have not changed my configuration since TDE prehistory? Thanks for any help!
Hi Bill,
I’ll offer you a different (better?) solution:
for VirtualBox with XFCE
Sorry, but I've tried Whonix, didn't like it (at least not for my primary box, which at the moment is my only box).
Ah, it's run in a VirtualBox VM so it's not a 'primary box' replacement (e.g. you'd run it on your primary box, not as a primary box). It's only to replace your current use of tor, tork and privoxy.
If you're using tor, tork and privoxy for everything you do, then you can spin up a Devuan VM and copy all the network settings of the Whonix Workstation VM so the Devuan VM only goes through the Whonix Gateway VM[1]. Although if you're going that far you'd be better served to go the Qubes-Whonix route:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes
Which is exceedingly safer than Tails, Heads, or any of the other similar solutions.
HTH, Best, Michael
[1] That’s seriously not recommended as you’d lose all fingerprint anonymity.
When I tried out Whonix before (about 2 or 3 years ago?), I used Qubes. It seemed too much trouble for what I want; and besides, it seemed like I couldn't use it for ordinary stuff like email, banking, buying stuff online ... where you generally need a direct connection. I don't know if you get round that by changing your apparent location, etc., but that is an issue for me. I do sometimes have to connect to the outside world for business.
And now, my biggest objection is that Whonix is Debian, thus systemd, and that violates a core tenet of my religion. A non-systemd version of Whonix, and I would definitely give it a try.
I seem to recall yourself recommending a Raspberry Pi (or some such?) as a device to route all my traffic; I believe the question in that earlier thread was how to send email over a proxy connection? something like that?
At present, I have wiped my system clean of everything tor, tork, privoxy, config files and whatever else I cuold think of, then reinstalled and started over for a clean start, but to no avail.
I suspect that my ISP may somehow be blocking the use of privoxy - by blocking port 8118, perhaps? Maybe I need to find somehow to circumvent their attempts at censorship and/or surveillance. I just set up OpenDNS again, too, which I know I ought to have been using anyway. But all to no avail.
The reason I don't quite trust my ISP is that they have recently created a Tor exit node for themselves. Even if I trusted that they were kindly trying to protect their users, it seems inherently insecure to use a Tor exit node that is run by my ISP, so I have blocked their Tor server. And now I cannot get privoxy to start up, no matter how I've gone about it.
No paranoia here! Just good wholesome fun. Clean living and clean thoughts: there's the key!
Bill