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by endymi0n 3173 days ago
...or "how to immediately get flagged as a paranoid weirdo nerd and die without credit FOREVER ALONE"

A little like the paradox that by using more secure browsers and configurations, any browser fingerprinting algorithm will single you out reliably from all the other sheep.

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Connecting from a Linux based VM will get you flagged? How about one VM used exclusively to connect to banking sites with cookies remaining?

Not sure if you are familiar with how it works, or how using a VM OS works. It's a bare metal hypervisor with VM's to be used at will.

it's like the old adage that "the NSA really love people using PGP email, as it immediately reveals who's worth watching"