[tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

Luther Blissett lblissett at paranoici.org
Tue Oct 8 15:43:18 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 23:43 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:42AM -0700, Blibbet wrote:
> 
> > BTW, UEFI-based systems have a full IPv4/IPV6 network stack, with
> > PXE remote boot and WS-Management remote admin/control, and tools
> > like Perl and Telnet baked-in, so make sure your firmware isn't
> > spewing packets before Linux and Tor loads. :-)
> 
> We need more open hardware with less proprietary crap and
> nonobvious backdoors (IPMI, Intel AMT, UEFI, etc).
> 
> So if you're buying hardware for your Tor node, look
> into coreboot support first http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
> 
> Eventually, we will have completely open hardware we can trust. 
> But that day is not here yet. Meanwhile, let's minimize the amount
> of evil in the system.

You reminded me of http://h-node.org, which is also a good place to take
a look at before any new hardware acquisitions.

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