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I want a Tails-like LiveUSB OS like tails, but without the tor reliance. Does anyone have a suggestion? Heads is dead, last release 2018, but it resembles what I am looking for.

  • @[email protected]
    5•3 months ago

    OP, could you please properly vocalize what you actually want/need?

    If you don’t know how, consider at least to answer the following:

    • Do you need it to be amnesiac? The very thing that defines Tails*.
    • What’s wrong with Tor? Is your threat model so paranoid that you (somehow) don’t even trust Tor? Or, are you not in favor of its (relatively) low bandwidth? Or, is privacy and/or security not even a thing you seek after to begin with? Or, at least not beyond what your average distro provides already*.
    • What do you intend to do with it? Daily drive it? If so, do you need persistence?
    • What does “Tails without Tor reliance” provide/offer you beyond a LiveUSB from any other distro? Or, rather, what do you hope it will provide/offer you?

    FWIW, I’m afraid we might be dealing with a classic XY problem. Hopefully I’m just mistaken…

    • @[email protected]OP
      3•3 months ago

      I appreciate your attempt to help, but I do also realize that what I’m asking for is rather niche and may not exist.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•3 months ago

      Do you need it to be amnesiac? The very thing that defines Tails*.

      Yes. A persistent storage feature would be nice but isn’t a requirement.

      What’s wrong with Tor? Is your threat model so paranoid that you (somehow) don’t even trust Tor? Or, are you not in favor of its (relatively) low bandwidth? Or, is privacy and/or security not even a thing you seek after to begin with? Or, at least not beyond what your average distro provides already*.

      The reason I don’t want to use Tor is because I will only connect to plain web websites where I don’t care if they know my IP. I also find that CloudFlare and other services can block Tor which sometimes causes issues with my work.

      What do you intend to do with it? Daily drive it? If so, do you need persistence?

      I mainly plan on isolating certain browser-based work I’m doing with other work on my computer. As I said before, persistence would be nice but is not necessary.

      What does “Tails without Tor reliance” provide/offer you beyond a LiveUSB from any other distro? Or, rather, what do you hope it will provide/offer you?

      I hope it would offer me a highly hardened environment to do work in, without the requirement to set it up every time on other liveusb OSes.

      To put this all together, I want an amnesiac live USB hardened(browser, kernel) environment that does not use Tor.

      • @[email protected]
        1•3 months ago

        Thanks OP for the clarification!

        Unfortunately, I don’t think can I really help ya out here. However, I do wonder: Would a solution involving the (so-called) unsafe browser of Tails satisfy you?

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•3 months ago

          Is that browser hardened to the extent the tor browser is? I looked this up and have seen conflicting reports. If it is, that would probably be a viable solution.

          • @[email protected]
            2•3 months ago

            Honestly, I’m not familiar with the specifics. Can’t help you out further. Wish ya good luck!

            • @[email protected]OP
              2•3 months ago

              Yes, I’ll look into how hardened that unsafe browser is, because that would be an ideal solution for me. Thank you very much.