Author: boyska Date: To: tacovdveen[yahoo] CC: freepto@autistici.org Subject: Re: [Freepto] FreePTO is really great,
thanks a lot + 1 small thing about TOR (not FreePTO's fault though)
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:08:32AM -0700, tacovdveen[yahoo] wrote: >Hello freepto,
Hello!
>Previously I also used skype and teamviewer, but not anymore, so it has all I ever need
>For sure my number 1 Linux(being portable, and complete and just working).
yes, skype should be absolutely avoided for security reasons. Not only
its content is insecure; it could also act as a backdoor, which would
defeat any other security measure
>1 thing I like to bring to your attention.
>It's nice that you also have TOR. >From what you say thereon, I suppose you're talking about the Tor Browser.
>I think it would be nice to have the option not to have to download it
>everytime (daily), but be able to store it on another
>usbstick(surviving reboot), and only now and then download when new
>version is available. Although the process is quite quick. Just saving
>bandwidth, but nowadays who care about that.
hey, it seems that you hit a bug! Actually (if you have persistence
enabled) torbrowser will NOT be downloaded every time: there will just
be a simple check to see if it is updated.
Are you sure it is getting really downloaded every time? Is persistence
enabled?
>1 other thing regarding TOR. I always had the impression TOR was safe.
>For sure my IP is masked, that works fine.
>But when doing a TEST with the link below, it showed that the TOR
>browser failed 90% while the other browser in FreePTO IceWeasel blocked
>all items in the test.
IceWeasel (as customized by freepto) blocks a large number of trackers.
TorBrowser uses different security measures, and we really don't want to
touch too much the security measures adopted by torbrowser developers.
I suppose that the choice of not blocking trackers is to avoid being
_more_ identifiable as a torbrowser user.
>I didn't expect TOR to be less good then IceWeasel. Maybe there is a
>logical explanation, like TOR only masks IP-address, but it will cost
>you on security or something like that.
I don't know the exact reason why those trackers aren't blocked, but
keep on mind that having a 'blacklist' of trackers does not really
protect you: just setup a new tracker, and the blacklist is not updated
anymore!
If you want to increase your anonymity even more, disabling javascript is
a great idea: just click on the "S!" logo at the left of the navigation
bar, and say that you want to block scripts globally.
Thanks for making us notice that anyway!
>But above all I want to tell you FreePTO just works great, I tried like
>50 different Linuxes, but only LinuxMint,Porteus,FreePTO came out best,
well, it's really great to hear such things
>So if you keep FreePTO like it is now, I finally can stop searching for
>a Linux that finally is a match to my windows XP that works flawless
>for 14years now. But I really like FreePTO portability, and of course
>the Linux-vision as opposed to the windows-vision.
sure, we aren't going to do any dramatic change, only ensuring it's
always easier and easier to use.
