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Ask HN: Secure and minimalist linux distros?

by rob-alarcon on 9/7/2013, 4:19:27 AM with 5 comments

Recently somehow my Credit and Debit card information was stolen (maybe I have some malware in my Win8 machine), I'm searching for a secure and minimalist linux distro so I can create a VM to do just online transactions over secure Networks (like home). I found this document http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distros-paranoid-secure-distros-si/ that talks about LPS, Tails and Surprise!. What do you think?

by autotravis on 9/7/2013, 4:29:01 AM
I'd say good ole debian would accomplish your goals, but I'll defer to commenters with more ornate tin-foil hats.
by rob-alarcon on 9/9/2013, 4:46:47 AM
Look what is on the front page today http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
by xSwag on 9/7/2013, 6:19:23 AM
I'm surprised nobody has linked http://crunchbang.org/
by devb0x on 9/8/2013, 6:37:00 AM
just run 2 browsers man
by hannibal5 on 9/7/2013, 6:18:20 AM
Bruce Schneier uses Tails: https://tails.boum.org/
>Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to write about.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rema...