How do I get an FBI proof computer?
Wait, sorry I thought you were joking about having a computer approved by the FBI or something :) First thing is to ditch Windows 10 for Linux because Windows 10 is closed source and basically spyware. Let me know if you’ve any questions about Linux.
If it’s running linux is it good to go? I imagined hardware was compromised as well. @drinkinglakewater sort of has the same thought process. I hear mint is a noob friendly flavor of linux, is that true?
I was half joking. There’s been several proof of concepts attacks using certain hardware exploits in the architecture of Intel CPUs iirc, but those require physical access to your machine and if the FBI has that you’re probably already toast. Pirate is correct, security isn’t a yes or no, it’s a set of layers that you need to put together to protect yourself
The main thing to keep in mind is that privacy isn’t a zero sum game and that we should have a threat model. We do know that Windows is closed source and might have backdoors plus all the data collection they do and so on. This is easy to fix by using Linux and mitigates huge risks, you know?
Libre hardware is actually available but I’m not sure chapos need to go that far. At least let’s all switch to Linux first. Mint is use friendly and so is Kubuntu (Ubuntu+KDE Plasma ) which I recommend because it’s very stable, noob friendly and comes with Plasma Desktop Environment which is very powerful and easy to customize while being resource efficient. Let me know if I didn’t express my point well
