“I made the mistake most Americans and other residents of
nations where the rule of law is faithfully applied will make: I
assumed that a warrant would be needed to get at me and my machine.
In some nations, no such safeguards are guaranteed. Faced with that
prospect, even a well-secured Linux machine can be a beacon that
says “here I am” to government crack-downs where property and even
personal safety are not a given.“So I did a litte digging and, Oscar and everyone else, it turns
out that Linux is indeed a better-suited operating system for
keeping information flowing even when the powers that be might
object. The trick, which I failed to mention in my first reply to
Oscar, is anonymizing your traffic so that no one knows from where
in the world you are sending.”
Linux as Messenger of Freedom
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