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#1 Re: Privacy News, Privacy Violations, Privacy Discussions » Techniques To Staying Private Online » 2016-12-02 16:54:23

Linux is open-source, meaning generally that since so many of the public (software engineers, especially) view these things on a daily basis in an open forum, that any anomaly will be immediately noticed, and therefore quickly corrected.

Best secure Linux distros (distributions) are Tails, Qubes, IPFire, and Parrot. If you like(d) MS-DOS at a "C:/", then you'll like Linux. These four are hard to load and decipher, using many acronyms and codes that are not GUI-based (graphical user interface). Software engineer jargon abounds. The closest Windows-look are in Mint-Cinnamon, or Zorin, using a sort of Win7 interface. Parrot is okay too, but difficult to operate.

The problem here?? Even though Linux has over 500 million users (and rising!!), Epic does not have a Linux download version. Indeed, when I attempted it at a download page, I get the quick second message that Epic has not Linux version, but FF v.49 (even using privacy add-ons) shut the page down.

#2 Re: Privacy News, Privacy Violations, Privacy Discussions » Techniques To Staying Private Online » 2016-12-02 16:38:34

most email servers depend on the country of origin. Unfortunately, many countries are following a new signed protocol, based upon somewhat "feigned" terrorist threats. In 2017, such countries will abort privacy in favor of reveal, based upon a "sort of" warrant. Hushmail is Canadian, who observe many USSA privacy mechanisms (indeed, many members of the British Commonwealth--I'm looking at you Australia & Canada--have instituted many of the anti-privacy measures of Parliament). I sparingly use Hushmail, only their paid encrypted versions. I also use Runbox (Norway), but they, too, have signed onto the USSA privacy protocol, albeit later in 2017. Ditto for Proton Mail (Switzerland).

In all of these, one is always subjected to DDoS (basically a denial of service due to a flooding of attempts jamming the system by hackers--some say by government agents who despise privacy).

As for text privacy, try "Signal."

To stay private is becoming incomprehensible, but it means doing mis-information now, as best as you can. One might want to try 10-minute emails, trash phones, second telephone lines for different callers (such as mobile phone Sideline), using made up names, former addresses from years ago--you get the idea.

Just wish the government would get the notion that we all aren't terrorists all, and we simply want to be private, enjoy our liberties, and be left quiet and alone. nothing illegal about that.

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