Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Privatix Live-System

This is posted with Privatix Live session.
It has Open Office 3.0 which was my love (I did my thesis on Open Office) till it was hijacked by Oracle, which tried to destroy it.
Now in the hands of Apache is making a strong comeback and Debian's favorite probably due to light weight(lighter than LibreOffice).
Mind you this distribution is based on Mandrake which was my favorite of yesteryear which died a untimely death in France.
Mageia is in place now.
Its strength is that it is encrypted and even signing my email was allowed after (i had almost forgotten) secret word.
it made me to revise or reinvigorate my memory, which showing some signs of failure.
I lost one of my credit cards.
Did not lose any money, though.
Now I do daily memory training.

Privatix Live-System 
Free portable encrypted system on an usb flash drive or an external hard drive for safe editing and carrying along of sensitive data, for encrypted communication and anonymous web surfing
Not everyone who finds privacy important while using the internet and communicating or is editing sensitive data always has their own computer with a safely set up operating system and the required tools at their disposal or want to carry it with them.
That's why we created the Privatix Live-System (based on Debian GNU/Linux). It is an easy to operate safe and portable system that can be booted from a cd-rom, an usb flash drive or an external hard drive and ensures your privacy and confidentiality while using the internet and communicating or editing and encrypting sensitive data.
Therefore standard applications such as browser, email client, word processor, image viewer and most importantly numerous data protection and encryption software are integrated.
Private data and settings, documents, e-mails, or pgp-keys are not saved on the computer that you use but instead those are saved on the encrypted usb flash drive or on the encrypted external hard drive. In case of loss or theft of the data medium your personal data is going to stay protected by a password.
No free storage space is required, no system needs to be installed or any specific operating system or other programms are necessary on the computer that is used because the whole system and all other applications are loaded from the usb flash drive or from the external hard drive.
This way you can use unknown computers without having to rely on the security of the installed operating system that might be infected with trojans or software keyloggers and without requiring tools to be installed and despite of this mobility preserve high data protection standards or you can create a separate secure environment for very sensitive data or communication (e.g. collective bargaining, online banking, whistleblowing and e-mail encryption) on any external medium in addition to your regular operating system installation.