Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET
Privacy has become a keystone for keeping your information safe and preventing third parties from creating consumer profiles that could then be used for targeted marketing... or worse.
To that end, there are countless products and services that promise to keep you and your information private. Some work, and some are nothing but snake oil.
For me, the best route to privacy goes through Linux and one of the many privacy-focused distributions. Recently, I stumbled upon another such distribution, Securonis. The name reminds me of the Arconis cybersecurity solution, but I'm confident the Linux distribution and the proprietary business software have nothing to do with one another.
Securonis is based on the Debian testing branch and automatically, out of the box, routes all traffic through the Tor network, which means it's private and secure from the jump. It also includes a good number of applications geared toward keeping you even more secure.
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Securonis can be run as a live distribution (directly from RAM without installing it on your drive) or it can be installed with the easy-to-use Calamares installer.
All of this might sound complicated. After all, you'll find several preinstalled apps that might make you go, "Huh?" But even with added software like I2P Router, PxrtalCrypt, Securonis DNSCrypt, System Knight, VesperaCrypt, SecDNSChanger, and Wireshark, this distribution can be used like a standard OS -- only more private. And with Securonis defaulting to the MATE desktop, anyone, regardless of skill level, will feel right at home.
Even the web browser (FireScorpion) is geared toward privacy.
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