Mint goes well with a fedora, katana and communism. It's the only distro people around me ever talk about (if they do, which isn't often).
Internet security / anonymity thread
Ian Stewart
Tyler Butler
what do you two recommend instead? I've distro-hopped a bunch and want to make a good choice.
Kevin Morales
I'm slowly building an Arch system of my own on a USB, adding what I think I'd need and removing what I find broken/risky. I've had a lot of "fun" with it, like an accidental shutdown that left the boot partition somewhat fucked up, but it's gradually becoming usable.
When you install Arch, it's literally fucking nothing. At least you don't have to compile it.
Hudson Carter
This is incorrect, the checksum was always there and those that did check it found it didn't match. That's how they were alerted to the breach, they would have known about it sooner had the hackers changed the cheksum on their page;
>We were alerted very fast and we were able to be alerted because people could find contradicting MD5s (and that’s mostly because the MD5s aren’t just in one place, but in many).
Mint isn't very good security wise because of the way they handle updates as opposed to other distros but for 99% of people reading this post it's probably far more secure than whatever OS they're using that came with their computer.
Compared to Lenovo, Acer, HP or Dell the Linux Mint project has a much better track record of not including exploitable vulnerabilities in their releases. These major companies all add bloatware that's easily compromised and rarely bother to fix it. Just do a search for 'exploit' with the brand name and see for yourself how bad the situation is.
Sebastian Johnson
I thought kali was backdoored?
why? also, if you're already using someone else's wifi, then why not use tor as well?
Oliver Ramirez
When did back track become kali. I'm still on BT5
Cooper Ross
are you seeding? do you still has torrent? I've been trying to find BT5 torrent for a few days now
Justin Diaz
Consider what action you want to take, then work backwards to figure out how to do it securely.
Too much activity makes discovering patterns easy.
Julian Brooks
I just found out about DNScrypt. Encryption of traffic with your DNS server. Does anyone know it?
Nolan Perez
Y'all mothafuckas need POLTECH.