I highly recommend Qubes OS for its compartmentalization and its ability to be stateless. It has the ability to route all traffic over TOR as well as a VPN. It is meant for laptops primarily, but can work with some desktop boards. It is hit or miss still.
https://www.qubes-os.org/
I really like the idea behind the stateless computing from the Qubes creator.
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.pdf
At a minimum I would recommend full disk encryption with Veracrypt - https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/ - or something similar. If someone were to try to plant evidence on your computer, you at least have the encryption to protect you at rest.
To protect you while browsing, I recommend to at least use a VPN - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ (you can buy a gift card with cash and use it to pay for the service) - if not use the TOR browser, for all research. -https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Not sure which browsers are still affected, but don't forget about the STUN server request that can reveal your IP even if using VPN. The following is a link to test for the ip leak.
https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/
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Dataanti ago
he is not wrong, its rule 41 being passed by the DOJ, anyone using tor or a VPN is automatically put on a watch list sort of thing and they can have their devices confiscated from them without warning, and its a global thing, meaning its not limited to united states.
i will say, researching this stuff doesnt really matter, its posting things that you would have to worry about. if you where to post something use tails on a public wifi, if you are just reading and researching, dont worry about it.
CuriousGeorge16 ago
I have been reading the investigations and sharing on Gab, but not posting any new info. My phone, which is 99% of my onine usage, would not accept a charge and died - had to take it to a technician to fix. I was using a Nook in the meantime & it locked up. I am not trying to "protect" myself" and crazy things are happending to my quipment too.
Dataanti ago
this is tough, im a technician for the military so i want to say its either coincidence (cause black magic smoke inst behaving properly) or user error :P
but than again i dont want to sound like a shill
i have been posting on here an contributing a little bit of info on here so far and nothing has happened to my stuff.
CuriousGeorge16 ago
I am no technician and not taking precautions with my connections. It could be coincedence. Twitter would also lock up when I would post the #PizzaGate hashtag or share a #PizzaGate hashtag tweet. It would lock up for a few minutes. It ONLY happened in those incidents. I figured it was a "time-out". LOL. Stopped sharing/tweeting #PizzaGate on Twitter & moved my #PizzaGate sharing to Gab. Haven't had any more problems with Twitter. It too can be a coincidence... but lots of weird stuff going on.