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Anonymous
Hello!
I would like to know if antiX would be useful for keeping privacy in the Internet. There’s some Google-related programs installed in here, like YouTube downloaders, and some programs create “systemd” folders, even though systemd is not installed.
(NOTE: systemd is known to default into Google’s DNS if no other are set up)
Does this O.S monitor the user’s actions? Does it send information to the Internet without the users permission (excluding already-malicious programs installed by the users, for example chromium)?
Does the forum log information?
Brian Masinick
I am not the owner of antiX but I am a longtime participant and I believe in the work wholeheartedly.
There is no interest in collecting user data. The things that this community considers are the best ideas from the people who are interested and active in the community.
Privacy is an important consideration.
The main design choices when this distribution was originally conceived was to be small, fast and efficient for use with older systems. While some ideas have grown or modified these are still primary goals.
I’m not the one who makes decisions, I am simply another interested user.
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Brian Masinick
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I would like to know if antiX would be useful for keeping privacy in the Internet.
That is up to the user. If you use chrome, save your passwords and history in a google account, and navigate unsafe websites, you are putting yourself at risk.
You could harden your browser (many great posts in the forum about this), use a VPN other posts here too), disable IPV6 or randomize your MAC address every session to f*ck with IPV6 tracking, use the already installed firewall, limit program access to internet/your files using firejail (installed in antiX), control what programs startup (so that no programs maty startup without your permission), use tor browser, torrify your system…Does this O.S monitor the user’s actions?
NO. There is no trackbacks from the distribution. The only measurement I know of is the count of download for the isos but that is not antiX, but surceforge.com
Does it send information to the Internet without the users permission (excluding already-malicious programs installed by the users, for example chromium)?
No. This is not spyware.
Does the forum log information?
As much as any website with a database of users. If you create an account, a database saves your username, email and password, as that is how websites work.
If you use a javascript analyzer on antixforum.com (default homepage set on your antiX system), you will see that they don’t even send data to google analytics (which most pages do). This forum isn’t even indexed by google.com. The only info they may get is by the Google Translator plugin, for people who weren’t so fortunet to learn English and need the advice and posts translated to their language so they can understand solutions that we, people limited by very few languages, can give them.antiX Live system enthusiast.
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@jj1013: AFAIK, the main antiX goal is not the maximal security (which depends of user settings and software), but maximum stability on weak or old computers. If you want paranoid security from the box, better use Tails Linux or somewhat similar.
anticapitalista
@jj1013: AFAIK, the main antiX goal is not the maximal security (which depends of user settings and software), but maximum stability on weak or old computers. If you want paranoid security from the box, better use Tails Linux or somewhat similar.
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