Subgraph, an open source security company based in Montreal, has published the alpha release of Subgraph OS, which is designed to with security, anonymity AND usability in mind.
“Subgraph OS was designed from the ground-up to reduce the risks in endpoint systems so that individuals and organizations around the world can communicate, share, and collaborate without fear of surveillance or interference by sophisticated adversaries through network borne attacks,” its creators say.
Not the first time we’ve talked about it.
Resistance is futile. All your meta/data are belong to US.
Edited 2016-04-05 23:17 UTC
What about Tail ?
It is incredibly annoying that every Linux distro calls itself an operating system, as if that would automatically remove all vulnerabilities in kernel and glibc. This one is yet worse: it does not even tell it is Linux – all it says is that it includes “Grsecurity, the best set of Linux kernel security enhancements available,” and even that is only on one of the “about” pages, not on product’s main page.
Indeed, my thought exactly. The word “Linux” is apparent here and there, but nowhere do they clearly say it’s Linux under the hood.
Being truthful is annoying. Sheesh.
Why? It’s the truth. Things are so different between one “distro” and another that they are essentially different operating systems. Different kernel version/patches/additions/modules, different packaging standards (not just format, but file locations), different default library versions (hence the ABI problems), different administration frameworks and commands, different desktop environments provided and/or customizations to said environments. In many ways, linux distros can be more different than, say, NetBSD and OpenBSD are from one another. If they weren’t, we’d not need so many separate packages for each “distro” now would we?
Utter nonsense. We need separate packages for daily snapshots of BSDs and many other Unix-like systems.
It’s not only about the security of the end point on your side. If the other side is located in a country which doesn’t respect your civil rights like privacy, hardening your side is futile. Unfortunately this is the case with the most popular internet services nowadays.
Alpine Linux also uses Grsecurity as well as an alternative musl libc.
So, better security and different holes than glibc hopefully less.