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:
https://www.whonix.org/
for VirtualBox with XFCE
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox/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