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spindritf on Oct 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online a...

So how does Tails[1] stack up? It seems to thwart most of those attacks.

It block non-anonymized traffic and makes permanent changes difficult. OTOH, privilege escalation bugs happen frequently on Linux.

https://tails.boum.org/

steveklabnik on Oct 4, 2013 [–]

According to the article,

> "Tails... adds severe misery to CNE equation."

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