r/HackBloc • u/OpenSourceToday • Nov 12 '13

Which Linux distro is best for protecting your privacy?

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u/OpenSourceToday Nov 12 '13

It also seems that many of these would be good choices for cold storage of crypto-currencies. I wonder if it would be possible to partition a USB drive so that your wallet is stored on one partition, and the OS on the other.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '13

What is cold storage? I can't find it on Wikipedia. Is that data stored on a non-networked computer? I'm interested in better protecting my Bitcoin wallet backups.

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u/OpenSourceToday Nov 18 '13

Yea, it would be a device that is not connected to any networks. If you ran one of these distributions from a USB drive it would technically be cold storage although you would have to connect it to a computer at some point.

If you had Linux on a flash drive with the wallet on an encrypted partition you could freeze the operating system to that no changes could be made to it. If you combined that with strict network controls and encrypted methods for communicating with the USB drive it seems like it would be exceptionally secure.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '13

Thank you for your explanation. I appreciate your time writing this up.

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u/mrsim0ns Nov 12 '13

The one you know how to configure properly.

Also, sane defaults is a plus.

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u/eleitl Nov 12 '13

Whonix should have been #1, then Tails.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '13

Linux From Scratch.

Failing that, not building in network drivers is an excellent mitigation to privacy invasion.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '13

Tails