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HEADS: A More Private Distro Experience

Posted 06-08-2020 at 05:34 PM by Zyrac
Updated 06-08-2020 at 05:46 PM by Zyrac

Tags anonymity, distro, privacy, security

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What is Heads all about?

Heads is a GNU/Linux liveCD distribution aimed at people who like the aspect of controlling their privacy and anonymity on the Internet. You might have heard of Tails as a similar GNU/Linux distribution. heads was born as an answer to Tails, since Tails is using systemd as an init system and also contains non-free software.

In heads, the init of choice is not systemd. systemd is a huge piece of software that,...

Zyrac

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Security and Privacy on the Internet

Posted 08-12-2010 at 03:31 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 04-24-2021 at 09:07 PM by craigevil (Most of the advice is outdated.)

Tags anonymity, firefox, pgp, privacy, security

This post like all of my posts are several years out of date.
Use the Tor Browser, or a VPN preferably a paid one.
You can also use a browser like Librewolf that is a bit more hardened than Firefox or Chrome.

If you are really worried about privacy there are a few things you can do including:
Use the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox and use the
Easy Privacy list as well as the Antisocial list.
This list blocks the ever increasing social networking content...

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PGA - Pretty Good Anonymity

Posted 12-10-2009 at 04:08 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags anonymity, proxy, ssh, tunnel

a note i found on my archive while was making a cleanup on my HDDs.
written about 2 months ago.
i guess it might be useful for someone =) from what i can say i use that PGA for a long time already. it is slow of course, but it is like a gift for paranoid users =)
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proxychains + ssh = Pretty Good Anonymity(let's just name it PGA? ;) )
How to make PGA in five steps
by edK

Scheme:
You -> SSH(s)...

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