Free advice, take it or leave it:

• Don't post duplicate threads across forums. It is not polite. (Some might be so bold as to call it spam.)
• If you want clear, helpful answers to questions, ask clear, honest questions that help us help you. Don't try to trick others with a weird "red herring" question, and then wonder why a thread goes off track.

It's like a lot of things in life: communication with other humans can be as easy or as difficult as we choose to make it.

I'm not ready to call you out as being part of the TFH crowd but be aware that this is the Linux Security forum. We deal with security-related questions based on facts and facts alone. So please leave politics out of it. Apart from that you've been asking questions (and getting good response) without clearly defining what you (think you) need. So this is a call to you to please be specific (now and in any new questions and threads) and state your questions in a verbose, detailed manner, backing them up by your technical observations and tests you've run.

Please don't accuse me of "missing" something you failed to mention in your original question. I have no idea how to protect you from the pentagon (if that is indeed your actual question).

To return to the original "most secure distro for online payments" question, I'll reiterate what I said in your (closed) thread on UbuntuForums: online financial security begins and ends with your financial institution. No Linux distribution can provide what your bank's fraud department can, which is the ability to reverse fraudulent charges made to your account.

To identify a fact from a claim, it takes judgement. Security discussions without judgement can be stupid. Some may be used to parroting textbooks and getting exam grades for it, but in real life security is an underground matter, suitable for streetwise and inventive people.

What I (think I) need is clearly said in the title, it's the Most secure distro for online payments to ebay/amazon, it's not Instructions how to make any distro more secure. I don't appreciate instructions because I feel they are probably incomplete, certainly they are not as complete as Backtrack's settings. No offence but I trust Backtrack hacker-developers more than you.

So for me the thread has been answered, Backtrack is the answer.

Unless someone knows an even stronger distro. Which must still be capable of paying amazon/ebay/paypal though, server-only distro's won't do.

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I disagree.

Backtrack is not known for being particularly secure (or insecure, to be fair). It is a penetration-testing distro. It has the tools one uses to see how secure a particular system is, not tools to make the distro itself more secure. It was based on Ubuntu, current version is Debian-based. Backtrack is not inherently more secure than it's base distro.

In response to your question "What is the most secure distro", I stick by my first response: BSD.

I also think you are doing yourself a disservice by ignoring suggestions on how to secure any distro, but that's your call...

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I'm not ignoring suggestions, just not considering them to be enough. And by the way most suggestions I have seen are already familiar.

Which distro do you recommend then? Debian lenny with LXDE is broken as a VM.

B - S - D.

You have absolutely no single reason to trust me.


Awesome. And since you haven't put forward anything tangible in terms of research I'd say thread solved, case closed.

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