![]() I made a comment before on this post (not published yet) but after hours of challenge with my TOR browser, i thought maybe I should make another one. It's about maximizing security, and for some use cases where changing Operating Systems is impossible for a variety of reasons Tor Browser can be used to increase security on Windows. Perfect security is functionally impossible as long as you're using a computer. You don't have perfect security on them just like you don't have perfect security on Windows. ![]() I'm not trying to say Windows is superior simply that alternatives might be superior to Windows but they're still not perfect. Heartbleed was a bug in a smaller piece of software that had a greater than normal number of eyes on it and it went unreported for a significant amount of time. The code base is just to big and complicated to expect even a detailed review to have a good chance of finding them. Secondly, even though other OSes are open source and can have their source code reviewed that doesn't mean they can't have security bugs or even have flaws intentionally coded by agents of certain governmental or corporate organizations. Tor isn't only a program for anonymity in the West that's why they get government funding along with other similar programs. It might not effect you much, but for users in countries whose governments aren't on good terms with Microsoft, they can expect they're government to have significantly more trouble monitoring them on machines running Windows. With that said, you can expect that Microsoft only gives those backdoors to governments and corporations it is on good relations with. This doesn't mean that Windows is safer than other OSes it almost certainly has backdoors in it, but they have to be accessed. ![]() First of all, not everyone runs intrusive antiviruses even on Windows the "spies" are almost entirely third-party tools.
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