Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 4, 2008 @08:30AM from the tinfoil-laptop-carrying-case dept.

ruphus13 writes "There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most paranoid. The 'alpha-alpha' version of ParanoidLinux is now out. But is this the best way to protect oneself? Couldn't it be easily circumvented? The article asks, 'Why is it necessary to put the applications and services designed to protect anonymity, to encrypt files, to make the user nameless and faceless, all together, in one distribution? Let's think in a truly paranoid manner. Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?' What should truly paranoid user do?"

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Suggestion by msuarezalvarez · 2008-10-04 08:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

The truly paranoid user should get some help...
Hermit by el_chupanegre · 2008-10-04 08:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

A truly paranoid person would be suspicious of absolutely everyone and everything. That would mean writing your own OS on your own hardware etc etc.
Since this is impossible, go and live in hiding with no human contact or chance thereof.
Why would you download this 'super-safe' OS from some people you never met, through a public unencrypted network, if your life depended on it?
easy answer by schnikies79 · 2008-10-04 08:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

"What should truly paranoid user do?"
Stay off the internet.

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Gone!