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Tails and QubesOS are two of the choices of Snowden, without 3 minutes of padding.

People: Wants privacy Also people: Uses FACEBOOK

NSA got nothin' on me. I still use my abacus and pigeons with a Morse code overlay. It's pretty secure AF.

"The operating systems most people use every day today aren't really geared towards privacy." Understatement of the century lol! xD

Ed Snowden should be pardoned by the President. He did the country a service by blowing the whistle.

"I recommend TempleOS" - Edward Snowden, 2020

I recommend Windows Vista. If Microsoft and Users can't get it to run properly, fat-chance anyone else could.

If you want more security don’t expect convenience.

Protecting User Privacy has never been a priority for Microsoft. For decades, they actively worked with law enforcement to help them mine data off of users PCs. The documents exposing this have been out on the internet for a long time... When a corporation says they "Value your privacy" it doesn't mean what you think it means. What they are actually saying is they see a value in violating your privacy. If you ACTUALLY READ a "privacy statement" you'll find it's simply a detailed explanation of all the ways they intend to violate your privacy. Not a list of all the measures they will take to protect it.

TLDR: He used tails (which stays on a thumbdrive) and then QubesOS (which sandboxes programs in color-coded cubes)

Just 30 min ago I was reading the case of him in a ppt uploaded by my teacher.I didn't even search him and suddenly got this video in recommended.Talk about privacy.

Yes, now I can write my SandersXTrump fanfiction without FBI snooping. Read that Agent Smith? You have to wait untill I publish it like everyone else.

Great job on the video! Direct, simple to understand and not too long. Perfect. Keep up the good work.

Short answer: _Linux_ Long answer: _L I N U X_

You earned my subscription with that video. That's gold, friend. Well done.

Well done for making this video mate. We need all the education we can get and that you can also provide...Top notch mate !!!

This video was in my recommended. You have just earned a new subscriber :)

Summary : According to this video, Edward Snowdon recommends Tails and QubeOS

Good advice indeed. Mindset is very important: "it is NOT okay to steal my private information, you should NOT want to be a thief". Say that to everyone especially your government and the Big Tech companies.

Thanks very much for this very informative video,I shall be using qubes from now on. Happy New Year

I recommend a Commodore VIC-20 with BASIC

I had Qubes on an old laptop half a decade back, and I have to say it's a surprisingly stable system.

Much Thanks for sharing You architecture insight!

Great content. And the animation you use are so smooth. Could we hope for a qube os noob guide ? I tried before but it needs specific hardware . Also what is your opinion about parrot os? It has many tools for privacy and comes with apparmor and firejail for security . Thanks.

So, Edward Snowden doesn't fall for Apple's marketing about privacy?

good video ... thanks ... i have many usb sticks which i had intended to use as live os ... but problem is they all look alike ... so i guess solution is a storage appliance in which i can store them with written reminder about what is in them ... any recommendation for such or any other type of product?

thanks brother i am gonna enter deepen to these electronic technology to know more about what it is work.

The video is great, thank you. However I am baffled how this "privacy" thing is so common to hear. People: companies do not effectively save data to see what YOU personally do, they look at what a USER is doing. Most of it is Telemetric data, stuff like uptime, runnig applications, what when and why, but unless you commit crime nobody is really interested what you do. The money (payload) for them is not your personal life, the money for them are for mapping user habits and routines and performance data. Also, don't overrate your privacy because if you completely isolate yourself and follow "Snowden's advice" you pretty much will hate the internet, cuz you are not to login or register any accounts using these OSs, the connection will be painstakingly slow, forget javascript or any dynamic content, forget youtube, you can pretty much browse on old-modem like speeds. True, it will be private that is 100%, but keep in mind that your cellphone and your irl behaviour gives you away in a second, forget bankcards, forget cellphones, forget transfers. Real "privacy" is like when a bankrobber or a spy is hiding. You pretty much shoot yourself in the foot by wanting "so much" privacy. Be safe instead! Use a VPN, used a protected DNS, use protected Proxies, use a strong and known Password manager, like KeePass for offline, or BitWarden for online (open source stuff for transparency), register for ProtonMail for added security for emails. Create long passwords - better even, passphrases - at least 20 characters (I know 10-12 is the jam now but more never hurts, look up enthropy), password lock your computer and devices, refrain from biometric IDs or motives, encrypt them if you can, buy yourself an external authenticator key like Yubikey, and/or use mobile authenticator apps or devices. If you want to pay for extra safety at any of these services, I ran the numbers, expect about 50-100 $ upkeep for your privacy/ month! (VPN, ProtonMail, cloud storage, software licences, Proxy) Or just use free services from Google and enjoy your life. 99,99999% will never have any privacy issues anyway. Just keep your passwords safe and long (20 chars, always different everywhere and use a password manager) and use a VPN. That is already more than what most do. Otherwise the only thing you will ever experience of this "intrusion on your privacy" is targeted ads, which I love because why the hell would I want to buy diapers, when i am not interested and don't need any, I want to be shown stuff I actually might wanna buy. I know people who tell me they want control over their data, but fail to do even the first of the above. Annoying is what this is. Btw, I am working on becoming an IT security specialist, I did a lot of research on the topic, and I may not know everything, but I am not much wrong in what I said. I do the same, so far I never had any problems.

God bless Edward Snowden. Full support for you bro!!!! Thanks for opening eyes to normal and honest people. You do a good thing.

Hi my friend, Is there any keyboard app that you'd recommend to use to type in this operating system or to use anywhere for privacy?

Awesome work fitting that info in less than 5 mins.

QubeOS is a super idea. But I've heard it have closed code components. And yeah. What are you thinking on openBSD in front of secure system?

Halfway into the video, I was already downloading Tails with the intent to install it onto one of my many empty USB storage devices. It sounds like it'd be a useful thing when out and about and in need of using someone else's machine for a little bit. And plus it shares the name of one of my favorite video game characters so hey, how could I not?

german cc club showed you can read monitor cables and maybe go ocr ön it..? are standard? shielded enough ?

I'd like to find something fully featured but have the same kind of security as Tails and so on but look like Windows 7 minus the logo and the fact the icons would look different and so on. Does anyone have any good ideas of what to use, also this would be a great idea for someone interested in making their own OS.

Great video. Direct, relevant, practical, and concise. Thanks.

I used to use Qubes but then they made it a lot less compatible with various hardware setups, do I called it quits on qubes.

what about pureOS? is it a viable alternative to qubes, if your threat model is not high like Snowden's?

Så tilfører mann havet næring også jenbruk?

Qubes is such a smart pick for privacy and security. It needs a beefy device though. Plus, Whonix, a Debian-based Linux distro that routes all traffic through Tor, works very well in conjunction with Qubes, as Whonix was designed to work best inside a Virtual Machine and Qubes has a focus on those.

Tails has a specific purpose. Qubes is intended to from disk not USB. He didn't just say he switched because Qubes has better security.

what if we use install virtualbox inside tailes and use qubes inside of it

Can I install one of them permanently and install my window design softwares on the system.

Tails: for buying druggz off the darknet. Cubes: for selling druggz on the darknet. 😂

My suggestion is to use local resources and internet resources separately . Lan networks was more original and interesting way to communicate between close range of the users

Can you have Windows and Qubes on a computer at the same time? Choose to boot up in one or the other.

dont these various OS and VPN, networks just eventually serve as honeypots if/when compromised? what about technology that does its encryption job in the main stream flow where all the massive data flow is already, can't that serve as some security cloaking? or is computing so powerful that massive data flows don't slow anything down?

if they want you, they'll get you. end of story...

If you use same roads, makes no difference what car you drive.

Does it run Reaper, Native Instruments Komplete, support Audient USB drivers?

TY for the Info.

CubesOs sounds really cool, imma give that a try in a vm to see how it goes. Maybe even dual boot my laptop into it

I Recommend Windows 10. Installed it on a brand new laptop 3 years ago. I am still waiting for it to finish upgrading. Not a spy in the world that can get past that!!! BTW! anyone interested in buying a laptop. Only been used once...almost...

What's your opinion on Kali Linux, Parrot OS ? Private enough?

How can you use tails if you want to go on line and browse or is that not it’s purpose?

I'm pretty surprised open bsd isn't on the list. If you install it you have no network access at all, everything is blocked and you have to manually unblock every port.

Edward Snowden is a modern day hero. Change my mind

Great video!

Thank you. ⭐️

*Using Tails Linux to see just how much dark material it will take to hear a loud knock at your door, and how fast it happens*

I use Incognito Mode like a true hacker.

Thank-you for your QUALITY CONTENT.

I started downloading the Tails usb image, but it say it is AMD64. Is there an Intel version?

NSA's favorite operating system: Minix.

I think, this is a great vid. Yet in my opinion a linux distro which makes u comfortable with hardening it should be useful and secure. And if I wanna do some privacy stuffs go on an one-time use OS or a VM. To be safe and secure depends on what environment u are in, I think. Like in my country I don't have to use VPN to download stuffs from torrents. And If ya wanna perform some attacks and don't wanna get logged ur IP then never attack from home that's way more safer than Tor. 😁 What to use... that's the one depends on what environment u are in, what the situation says, how much can u do something before ya get spied, how do u interact with it and so on that's why I love about the four point process, when it comes to security.

Nice, but isn't routing all network traffic through the Tor network insecure by itself? I read somewhere that the NSA is operating Tor servers, so wouldn't it be a bad idea to route the traffic through Tor then?

Muchas gracias, tu información es muy valiosa. Considerare el uso de QubesOS.

I must say that the vocalizations of the narrator bring to my mind the iconoclastic director Werner Herzog. It is, in a way as if the great man himself were giving me an assessment of tools to be used in the realm of internet security. I don't need to tell you that to the average person this is both thrilling and soul-shakingly disturbing on a primal, reptile level. Internet security has become the stuff of nightmares to me, and now Herzog haunts my dreams.

Qubes OS runs on systemd, There's a reason why Snowden's comment is four years old.

What computer language you recommend: ? I like c because it does not have fluffy crap layered on top of it like new and lously languages like Java

really good idea... I've got to try this

I just use a custom debian iso, with all my programs including tor ready to go on it

I recommend smoke signals in Maya slang

Edward Joseph Snowden how to you find someone you met about 2016 and never knew there name. I can backtrack on Well Fargo in 2016 but with the time I met him can I find him again if I know original day and place.

Ausgezeichnetes Video! Vielen Dank!

"TempleOS is the best, other systems sucks" ~Snowden 2020

My wife asked me why I was whispering at home. I said I was worried that Mark Zuckerberg was listening. She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed. We all laughed.

Can qubes run uwp apps? (windows 8 and later)

Could you not make a bootable drive of Qubes OS as well?

Crysis?

I will choose the OS the government recommends, just to be safe🥰

Isn't any OS vulnerable if the computer you're using has Intel ME or AMD's equivalent?

Of this man one can say either supreme good or nothing! The good he has done has opened the eyes of most of the masses in the world, excluding us consecrated ones! Thanks Snowden, bow and respect!!!

MacOS has had windows10 like data collection since 2018. Ubuntu has data collection as well, although not as extreme as the other 2, but it's definitely no longer an option for people who give half a shit about privacy. Tails is a great 'disposable' os, something to use when you want to do something and you want to ensure that nobody can track you down (it's not as simple as it sounds though, tails OS by itself isn't enough for this, it's just a good foundation to start from), but it is not viable as a daily driver. QubesOS unlike tails is viable for use as a daily driver, but it has some major downsides that may keep people off it; first off, due to it's nature of security through compartmentalization, and compartmentalization through virtualization, the OS is designed to run multiple virtual machines to compartmentalize your use, if used correctly it is possibly the most secure operating system in the world. The downside however is that it's very resource intensive, every VM is a drain on your CPU and RAM, so it requires a powerful CPU and a sizable amount of RAM to use effectively, also the VMs have no hardware accelerated video support, this means that watching videos in QubesOS is effectively not really an option, it's just not gonna work, naturally in the same vein, gaming is also not an option and a lot of professional tasks are unavailable as well. QubesOS is for the ultra-paranoid security extremists, it's too much for most users due to it's limitations, it's security without compromise, but unfortunately that lack of compromises also means that the user is not actually given a choice if they are willing to accept such compromises (like enabling hardware acceleration...) and makes it just not a feasible OS for anyone that's not doing extremely sensitive work. I could see something like this used internally by entities like military and spy agencies, but not even the most paranoid government office is likely to be willing to go this far (in fact most of them are not even willing to leave windows :| which is quite the disgrace)

But can it run Crysis?

I'm glad we are taking OS recommendations from a SharePoint administrator.

Very and thank you

GrapheneOS (heavily hardened android) has also been recommended by Snowden in the past for phone users, with the obvious caveat that it doesn't stop the inherently insecure nature of cell services.

Ubuntu can also run from a CD or USB stick

What about pureOS Linux?

whonix is another great operating system. Prob better for the average person as it's a virtual machine, so you can try it out without changing your operating system. It's also easier to use and less resource-intensive.

Tails is Debian based, and Qubes is Debian and Fedora based. In other words Linux. So Debian, and Linux _are_ recommended by Snowden after all. Also Qubes might be Linux and open source, but it still uses closed source proprietary blobs. So keep that in mind. Snowden recommended proprietary blobs.

Tails *is* a Linux distribution. So, calling it a separate OS would be a stretch. Qubes is built on Linux, but of course, with its heavy use of virtualisation techniques, it is more distinct, so, calling it a separate OS might have some justification

What is the best android smart phone version of this. Iam not a n a national security risk, just someone wanting to avoid being stalked by others.

Does CubesOS ensure anonimity too, like TailsOS ?

"The operating systems most people use every day today aren't really geared towards privacy." No, because the OS development companies concerned don't want them to be, they need to access our locations and internet traffic for advertising and commercial marketing revenues, and the odd bit of snooping, it's been like this since the 1980s!!!

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Outstanding Video very well done, well done

Di download with play store?