The government is definitely the bigger threat to cybersecurity. Individual hackers may have far more skill than the people employed by the NSA, but the NSA has billions of dollars in resources. They have whole server farms dedicated to finding TOR exit nodes, just so they know who YOU are and what YOU'RE doing. The best solution, Jabber, secure email such as Sigaint, TOR, VPN, Virtual Machines, Tails OS, and if you insist on using Firefox (as I do sometimes), there are a number of add-on that combine to make your IP address and browser fingerprint virtually undetectable. Is this all something the average person can do? No, it takes knowledge of hypertext, IP addresses and how packets are routed. But with a little persistence, and far less money and time than the NSA spends spying on you, it is possible to become completely anonymous.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Well for the average person it is indeed a little to much to use Tails OS. It is not really for day to day use. Not to promote my own stuff here. But i made a small tutorial a week ago for using Whonix client and gateway in combinations with veracrypt, vpn and more. I know this is the way hackers roam the web. And personally i feel very anonymous in in my whonix vm :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@disofdis/dod-or-tutorial-or-i-have-nothing-to-hide-but-i-like-to-or-5-steps
Whonix or Tails is kind of a toss up for me, they are both very good and have pros and cons. I just like tails because I keep it on an encrypted flash drive, my PC won't start without the flash drive plugged in. I also have a FF virtual box I created with a basically undetectable fingerprint, kinda like Antidetect but without the cost. Very effective.