James'Techblog

Linux is more secure than Windows and this is no secret. Many websites and companies alike all use Linux for their servers. Some Linux desktops are more stable than others that is true, but Linux servers have fewer attack surfaces thanks to the headless(lack of desktop) by default set up. Linux servers are sturdy as there is no graphical interfaces or other useless software getting in the way. Linux servers are, in my opinion, far superior to Windows servers. This is much to do with the lack of graphical tools as well as how the system is laid out by default. Linux files are placed in order on the drive, whereas a Windows machine is constantly in complete chaos. Always moving files around to and fro. In Linux, the file system is structured in a much more organized fashion. Another way that Linux is more secure and better than Windows is that Linux uses separate accounts in Ubuntu by default. Manjaro is generally used in a similar way. Arch and Debian usually have it differe

Due to the recent release of Tails 3.6 and a bit of old news making rounds again about US government involvement in the Tor project, I thought I’d explain a bit about these 4 separate topics. Each one is involved with user privacy and these are really good tools for surfing in areas where internet traffic is heavily monitored, they can also help you get around school internet walls that are blocking you from going to certain sites, be it a DNS filter or a hosts file. I’ll briefly explain what each do. EFF aka Electronic Frontier Foundation, is the foundation that is spearheading privacy and tracking protection projects of various calibre. They are activists for internet privacy who attempt to influence government decisions based on online anonymity in favor of end users and they have created and or funded multiple projects from browser extensions to descriptive articles to even the Tor project itself. Some notable extensions are Privacy Badger and HTTPSEverywhere. Th