No, IceCat is based on outdated LTS releases of Firefox, meaning it still has a ton of basic security flaws (NO SANDBOXING) that are fixed/being fixed in the latest versions. IceCat could be viable when Firefox 60 hits and is made the new LTS.
VPN reduces your threats from "everyone on wifi and my ISP" to "the guys who can hack/issue warrants to the VPN" (obviously the websites themselves can still be malicious) while making your traffic basically look like someone who downloads torrents. It's not a cure-all but it's one tool.
Getting on a list gets you spied on you fucking idiot.
Easton Russell
I meant it's what Tails runs it's internet through.
Jacob Ortiz
This, I should clarify that people need to install Linux because it doesn't actively spy on you by default the way Windows does. It still has plenty of vulnerabilities (main vector is your browser/anything from internet).
Luke Reed
You get a point, kinda. But since it's for noobs who get scared of anything where text is the main course, it's better alternative even if it's just for not having ultimately shitty presets. Not a privacy tool. You go there? You're already listed. And the premise you believe in, that you are not spied on when you use only usenet/vpn.. is amazing! Keep it up and #staycucked!
I didn't know there are more kernels named Linux. And no one is immune, just the possibility of getting fucked is way, wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy smaller than on windows/pooubuntu. No one here talked about being "immune".
Nathan Williams
Jfc they fucked him beyond hard, I'm no constitutional scholar but that looks like a list of rights violations.
Henry Wood
The real way to be safe is: use chrome, use facebook, make normalfag posts, don't like, visit, share, be aware of the existance of any leftist pages including here. Get all your news from regular news sources (always critically and aware of the ideology of the writer) don't buy anything on-line, only use paper money and a dumphone.
Aaron Fisher
I like some of what you said. However there's no debating between tails and whonix, whonix is better hands down for all around security. The only advantage to tails is the fact it erases itself from the pc each time. As for regular net (i.e not tor) I tunnel my vpn through a socks proxy giving me double layering protection. The extensions you mentioned are fine, but like one guy said, I would probably use umatrix over noscripts. Privacy Badger is a good recommendation.
Luke Smith
What if you just used it a few times? I have used tor just to check it out not really doing anything interesting and stopped after like a few months randomly. Do you think it depends on who your ISP is or is there always suspicion for any use?
Grayson Johnson
I don't really worry about OpSec. I run GNU/Linux on this machine for writing and compiling code, but I usually use Chrome OS, signed into my google account to browse the internet. I like its layout and it runs quickly. My web history would suggest that I am involved in / have been involved in communist organizing as well as illicit manufacturing and distribution of drugs, alcohol and explosives. Not saying this is the case or anything of course ;)
I've been involved in communist activity for literally my whole life so I know that I and those around me are being watched, so when I discuss any genuine criminal or revolutionary activity it is in person away from any electronic devices. Holla Forums is for memes and reading recommendations. I don't really care if the NSA has a vague idea of what I am really up to as long as they don't have the details they need to stop me.
Also this. I like Hezbollah's tactics and think they are certainly an honorable movement that we can learn a lot from, but their political ideology is 100% reactionary. I get the sense that people who push the "Hezbollah is revolutionary" meme are just trying to be edgy.
Wyatt Smith
Depends on who your ISP is and what country you're from. Also, when you were using tor, did you just browse onion sites or did you got to .com and .org sites? It's really only recommended that people use tor for .onion. You're the safest when you're on onion sites. 2357225 sounds like a fear monger. You're probably not on a list, nor is most tor users. The people that get put on lists are those who expose governments and whatnot. Not some dipshit looking to buy drugs or download cp. The NSA just dosen't care about trivial matters.
