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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
