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   Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 18:36:36 JST Håkan Geijer

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   @ljrk @sour not that you're wrong but I suspect your level of technicality is maybe too much here. I think maybe the answer is: Tails is good for ephemeral things and is quite anon, but its less commonly use for daily activity.

   But to really even answer the question, we need to step back and ask why they want to use Tails in the first place

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     lj·rk (ljrk@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 18:36:38 JST lj·rk

     @sour @hakan_geijer Absolutely! Security focused live systems are neat for some throwaway work, just do recognize that if the hardware is tampered with, it's hard for the OS to defend against that.

     But most attacks that work well against Linux but not so against modern Windows/macOS are attacks targeting the installed OS. With a live system you circumvent that. In theory, you can harden a Linux to a similar degree as Windows BitLocker (i.e., measuring Secure Boot state + long password or fido2 stick, using
     signed UKIs, etc.) or perhaps even more than that, but it's not the default and requires quite some knowledge.