The Intercept steps up after catching a reporter faking data and sources

[Ted Smith]

On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 03:37 +0100, coderman wrote:
> On 2/9/16, Rayzer <Rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > Somewhere on Tor's site I ran into something about how Tail's
> > tor/browser was more secure than the standard torbrowser because of
> > something the tails folks were doing with iptables. Perhaps they're
> > 'steering' traffic away from (or yeah, perhaps towards, take that anyway
> > you like...) certain nodes.
> 
> drop packets that bypass the SOCKS proxy path into Tor client. also,
> makes sure to plug leaks, like:
> 
>  iptables -A OUTPUT -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j DROP
> 
> see also, Whonix-Qubes, etc.

The downside of TAILS is that you don't get entry guards, which is
pretty major. 

-- 
Sent from Ubuntu
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