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Let's just cut the bullshit. If you really need / want #privacy. You don't need VPNs and hacker software that you have never heard of. You just need some simple hardware mods.

1. Buy a old laptop with cash or monero.

2. Open it up and remove the hard drive, camera, microphone, Bluetooth, and wifi card.

3. Put a drop of nail polish on the screws when you put it back together for anti-tampering.

4. Boot off a non persistent USB. Tails is the right answer.

5. Keep the USB on a lanyard and snatch it if things get hairy.

shortwavesurfer2009 7mo ago 💬 1

You should also remove the battery or if you don't want to do that use a buskill that will automatically shut the machine down if it is snatched away from you. No battery would make it slightly more inconvenient to use, but it would make it a hell of a lot safer because if it was ever taken away from you, they would not get very far with it before it shut down.

Come to think of it, I'd probably do both. That way, if they were to arrest you, but leave the laptop plugged in because they noticed there's no battery, they still wouldn't get anything because the buskill would have shut the system down.

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GHOST 7mo ago 💬 2

If you pull the USB the system is gone even without turning it off. The lanyard is for easy access to yank. Test it out

shortwavesurfer2009 6mo ago

I haven't actually used Tails because my computer actually doesn't support it. It's one of the very few that doesn't. So when you yank the USB, does it automatically trigger a shutdown sequence? Or does it leave the system booted and just would put it into a weird state? Because in that second frame, you might be able to get stuff from the RAM or programs that are already open.

I have pulled live USBs before, and since a lot of the system is loaded into the RAM, it still operates on a limited basis.

GHOST 6mo ago

Tails does not. You get a frozen distorted screen that could be a issue but nothing saved