This is an area I am interested in, too.
Let's think about the computer as a 'line of defense' for sensetive
information, such as banking records, private cryptography keys and personal
information.
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The first line of defense is Libreboot. Libreboot is:
1. Not backdoored: It cannot be used
I should also add, you need not remove yourself from all social media. GNU
Social is decentralised and runs with LibreJS (you can use Quitter,
GNUSocial.no, etc). Even Twitter is not bad at all other than being
centralised.
If it were QN Intel processor it probably would have had an integrated
graphics too, but alas, it was not to be.
You do not need to stop using a mobile phone, either. Purchase a
Replicant-supported mobile phone second hand, and just remove the battery
when you aren't using it. Then people can actually contact you sometimes for
instance if you are meeting up with people at a cafe or in a park, and of
c
We all are the admins of this forum because we all can click the "-" and "+"
buttons at the bottom of each post. The "-" button does *not* mean "I
disagree". It rather mean: this post does not respect our "Community
Guidelines": https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
An
Security starts with free software: if the software is not free, the user is
helpless against the (real) owner of the software. Users of proprietary
software are *often* abused. It is not a theoretical risk:
http://gnu.org/proprietary
I start with that point because you actually list two pr
VPN + TOR + GNU/LINUX.
I don't like saying this, but if you need nonfree drivers, debian. (it is
technicially free software if and only if you do not use the proprietary
firmware/non free repository.)
but I would in the future buy libreboot laptops or thinkpenguin laptops.
(libreboot imo is better. ;)
magic banana is right, ghostery and zenmate are indeed proprietary. But, I
know one adblocker/anti tracker you would like, its called ublock origin.
It is absolutely the best at this time. (next to noscript anyways)
I also learned too late just how bad the surveillance is as well.
I regret no
Ooh interesting! Thanks!
There's evidence using an adblocker can help track you because you block
connections to these domains. I think NoScript doesn't block the connections,
just the script from running.
Thanks! This looks really, much shinier than Zim. I'll try installing the
server after I try their service.
Another excellent one! Thanks!
+Libreboot
Thank you very very much for all of this information. To be honest I have
heard of perhaps half of it, so I will be studying this for some time, likely
one at a time, until I can get a handle on it all. Would you suggest an order
to tackle all of this, being as I am just starting out? Thanks
Upvoted. This has to be the best post I have ever read regarding
security/privacy. Congrats!
Now we only need a computer and a distro made following these points :)
Also, agree with Magic Banana, only free software is secure to begin with.
Should I stop using ZenMate and Ghostery?
Not according to Steven Rambam! He goes on at length explaining how all
social media is recorded and used against people in court, even years and
years after a post, and even where the context is questionable. This is very
true of political and religious post. As an intellectual I hardly use
I just became aware of this a few days ago, and It looks nice, but Id need
more information before I trusted it.
Mine is curl. After that, everything I can run in a bash script to mess with
html files and such. (grep, cut, etc)
What questions do you have?
What problems have you faced??
I'll see if I can make a Live CD using the TAILS instructions, but Libre, and
with grsec etc.
> do seek a wholly free system, but if at the end of the day I cannot get my
PC to work with Trisquel, and I cannot buy another, what are the drawbacks of
looking for the original drivers, and is that even an option while using
Trisquel? What I want and what I have are two different things. W
As far as the browzzer is concerned, I go this way:
VPN - firejailed and apparmored TorBB - Internet
or
VPN - firejailed and apparmored Iceweasel with noscript, httpseverywhere,
ublockorigin, RAS, privacy settings.
Yes, I use NoScript + uBlock Origin (microBlock).
Frankly, I prefer moving around with the modal way. I'm a touch typist though
(not a good one, but still).
I don't like holding modifiers. Actually, I still don't understand all the
differences between a Windows vs a GNU/Linux one. The Caps Lock doesn't work
with numbers unless configured tha
Oh, nice ! Thanks !
Is a firewall really needed ? I though I've read somewhere that most of the
ports are closed by default on GNU/Linux.
Email encryption : totally worth it if the person you intend to communicate
with doesn't have emails hosted at Google and other non-libre services. But I
might be wrong beca
So you don't read or write mails in Emacs anymore? I'm curious, why? A better
alternative?
I agree perhaps on the point of a Firewall. I added it for 'completion', so
to speak. Ufw (and the frontend Gufw) do have some advanced features that
means it is worth mentioning it breifly,
> Email encryption : totally worth it if the person you intend to communicate
with doesn't have emails
Interesting. I suppose I or my contact would have to get the email on the
computer to decrypt it?
I mean let's suppose I check the email while connecting to gmail, and it's
encrypted. The only way to decrypt it is to get a copy offline ?
I'm sure the Firewall has it's use in specific cases. B
"DuckDuckGo, “the search engine that doesn’t track you,” involves its
users in the selection process as it hands out nine $25,000 awards to mostly
FOSS projects."
Source: http://fossforce.com/2016/05/duckduckgo-gives-open-source-projects/
Good Riseup labs LEAP, and Tor. Improving access to ethical technology is
important for helping disadvantaged people and helping encourage political
debate.
There is a browser add-on called Mailvelope, I believe it is licensed under
the GBU Affero Public License. See here for an explanation:
https://posteo.de/en/help/sending-an-end-to-end-encrypted-email-in-the-posteo-webmail-interface-and-making-encrypted-emails-readable
You can of course use it
I personally do not fear being persecuted for my political postings and
technology stories, but I can see why social media can be bad for people who
do not wish for these things to be used against them. At least, with GNU
Social, there is no real-name policy, so people can post under pseudony
Sadly, the net installer is not accessible with speech.
I had a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 560 Ti in my desktop computer that had a dying
fan, so I saved up some money and upgraded to the GTX 970. Unfortunately,
Trisquel is now having trouble with the new card. I use the Cinnamon DE and
can only get it to boot into Software Rendering Mode. Which, okay, th
New NVIDIAs require signed firmware blobs.
Selling it might be a good option. You can probably recuperate most of what
you paid, since this is a new card and it seems you have barely used it. Then
look on H-node for a good supported card.
Alternatively, install Debian, enable nonfree repo for
H-node is not just about hardware that works, but also about those which
don't.
I agree! :D
Oh man! Where did you get this! It's so cool! I want the hight quality one as
a wallpaper. :D
Anyway, all AMD is trash and furnance, AMD loves non-free software. Their
blobed software works really bad, still not fixes, only changed name to
"Crimson". Their open-source drivers are crap, because AMD doesn't want to
release all hardware specifications. Anyway, ATI/AMD Graphics chips, can
I put in Duckduckgo and google: "richard stallman windows", and searched in
images.
Thank you very much! :D
I had gtx970, this one works only with non-free drivers and non-free signed
firmware. I sold that crap and bought gtx770 with full 4gb, insted of
gtx970's 3,5gb. I running Nouveau drivers. Next time I will buy i3-i5-i7 5gen
with Intel Iris GPU. Kepler cards can be reclocked with modern kernel
Just installed this. Thank you!
I'm "cross-posting" this to trisquel-users and libreplanet-discuss mailling
lists.
So, I made a "counting" on the opinions/votes so far, here is the table:
_
. "GNU" SD $Nome G+L "LibreOS"
___
Thanks, I figured that was a possibility, that nouveau wasn't yet able to
handle the card (the website shows a lot of progress, but more to be made).
H-node and the direct rendering thing suggested to me that it would work, but
I misinterpreted.
I know my options now.
unless your using a libreboot system, it is probably better to stay away from
lenovo laptops.
Thinkpenguin, libiquity (if usa) or minifree are all good for free software.
(thinkpenguin though isn't as good imo as libreboot laptops
Although, I say this cause of durability possiblity to upgra
to be quite honest, as bad as google is, it least it isn't as bad as that
perdition system winbugs. ;)
Very probably, Nouveau never will be able to handle Maxwell without non-free
signed firmware.
Well, Evolution sends notifications. And Emacs 21 could not display PDFs or
pictures (Emacs 24 can). Such documents are often attached.
On Mon, 02 May 2016 10:35:02 +0200
trisquel-users-requ...@listas.trisquel.info wrote:
I just joined the list and caught this conversation mid-thread. Could
someone fill me in on the background, such as how do they do it and how
much do they get?
Paul
P.S. I'm very pleased to have joined such a
The advantage of running Emacs in a graphical frame is that you can display
images in it (I sometimes edit some SVG by hand and want to see the result:
C-c C-c) or, even more useful for whoever write documents, PDFs (I split the
screen vertically with C-x 3, have the LateX on the left, the PD
It's not just yet. Signed firmware is required, so Nouveau will never be able
to support any recent Nvidia cards without proprietary firmware blobs.
Debian netinstall ISO is about 300 megs and it has an option for speech
synthesis.
Onpon4 took on the seemingly formidable task explaining where libre movement
stands. He managed pretty well but, of course, not everything was smooth
sailing in such a hostile place like Ars.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/why-microsoft-needed-to-make-windows-run-linux-
Hey everyone I see a lot of doubts in here about how to help Trisquel to
spread, well let me tell you my point of view:
First of all I am a Lawyer, a Divorce Lawyer, and I do my own advertising,
and as you may guess, it is kinda difficult, but here is a few things I have
learned and I think
I know it says Linux. And not GNU/Linux.
I know, and you know what I don't care. I care about people being free not
saying the proper things, after they are free I will take the time to explain
them all of this beautiful philosophy. And how to use their computers and all
that.
But freedom
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