EnemiesAllAround

Wait... It's as if they named the USA freedom act so that nobody could vote against it without being against freedom... Yet... It seems to take away people's freedom instead of providing it.

Seems underhanded and sneaky af to me

The tails project used to be the go to for this. I have no idea if it's still being updated etc. It's an operating system that can run entirely from a USB stick. It runs on ram and within its own VM so anything done on there stays on there. When you pull the USB it wipes the drive. Instantly. They also had windows camoflage Incase someone is looking over your shoulder.

It's go to browser is tor. Pre configured.

Perhaps someone doing this Ask me anything can answer this but years ago when the govt started owning all the exit nodes etc tor started to become slightly redundant although its still useful. I2P seemed to be the way things were going, then I never heard anything else..

If you type in "tails project" you'll immediately see it.

I've just had a look and good news as of April 2020 they released 4.6!

https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html

Bit of advice if you do go ahead. I seem to remember it doesn't work on SanDisk usbs no idea why.

Here's a write-up from them on the basics of how it works

https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html

It also has built in functions and features such as PGP key generators. Tor browsers pre configured etc. It's a really really great project

They can't "kill encryption" though. Surely open source software developed in other countries is going to still be developed?

Thanks for the reply. I wholeheartedly agree with your last paragraph. I've always been a staunch advocate for open source encryption programs to be made more commercially available.

I have to be honest, I believe that any "encrypted" products that are commercially available already all have backdoors in them.

I know there is a section of the Patriot act that allows the 3 letter agencies, should they want to, to request access to all your encrypted data from any company based in a jurisdiction the United States deals with, and has authority in. so any countries in Europe, the UK, US , NZ, Aus etc are all in scope.

This is exactly what argument they used against Huawei for 5G. That the Chinese state has a law, which forces Chinese companies to hand over all software, data, create back doors etc when told to do so on national security grounds.

Personally. The only way to fight it I believe, is through things like the tails project. What's your take on them? I haven't used it in a few years but they were always on point.

Quick last note about encryption programs not being hard to create. Am I not correct though that to create your own encryption algorithm such as RSA would require a lot of computing power, something not everyone has. And any algorithm easier to create would easily be broken by the NSA or GCHQ should they want to