Many of us browse the web for all kind of reasons, either
academic research, political update, latest celebrity gossip and if you happen
to be reading this its for technology update.
This can be achieved though many ways and certainly though a
variety of devices. On phone, tablets, pcs, etc. once the information is
consumed most of us close our browsers and life goes on.
If you happen to be
curious and suspicious or even searching for sensitive information and you want
your tracks covered up walk with me.
Anonymity online
If you value your privacy and care about not leaving traces
behind open your eyes wide and follow closely.
Ever heard of Tor? This is a very powerful browser that ensures
anonymity online. This is achieved by bouncing your connections to several
servers before reaching the intended destination.
Some website collect users information like location which intern
may be used for malicious intensions like physically tracking you, using your
location to recommend sites that you did not ask for……etc. on the other hand if
you online and carry out illegal business and don’t have private connections
this might be tracked back to you.
Over the years there have been improvements of this platform
fixing bugs and adding new features. This has led to the creation of the new anonymity
operating system.
Tails Operating system
This is privacy taken to a higher level. Just think of it? Using
tor browser does not guarantee you 100% security, this is due to the fact that
there might be bugs on the operating system of apps that are on the device that
you are using that might sell you out.
With the new live tails o.s. this ensures security and anonymity
at a higher stake, let me explain.
Firstly get the Iso image form the tails website. Secondly create
a bootable disk from it (in case this is French to you get on the comment
section answer will translate it to you.) this can be installed on a disk,
flash drive or even SD card. Once done run this live version on any pc of your
chose (NB: this will not a affect the host o.s or apps of the machine.) once
the booting is complete you are now safe to roam the inter webs. It comes with
a custom tor browser inbuilt
One thing to keep in mind is that whatever you access will
not be saved anywhere unless explicitly specified. No traces ae left on the
host as well. Once you switch off the tails live machine the info dies with it.
Some of you might be asking where the temp info resides. The
RAM yes the info lives there as long as the machine is on.
Conclusion.
As discussed above this are some of the ways to secure your
connections online and as we all know big brother is always watching and devices
ways and means to get to you.
Be very careful as you crawl in the interwebs , who you communicate
with, as this are ways to secure or increase your anonymity it does not guarantee
100% privacy.
Just for the record this research was carried out in the tails
platform……………………………….