[AnaniasAnanas]

If you are worried about the security provided by the tor browser then you should be using projects like whonix and tails. Both of them try to block (or redirect it via tor?) all non-tor traffic, which should make it significantly more difficult to mount an attack.

[torified]

I've been googling a bit and come up with Whonix, Tails and Qubes.

Can anyone advise their opinion on which one would be best to run in a VM? I'm prepared to accept the security compromise of running in a VM, but I do want the ability to store passwords in the browser and save small files in the VM.

Edit: Just signed up for this account over Tor for shits and giggles. Literally my first post and it's dead immediately.

I get that Tor has spammers but I did have to do the captcha to create an account so this seems heavy handed. Seems like there's no way to legitimately post to hn over Tor.

[AnaniasAnanas]

Qubes is a Xen-based virtualization thing, it has nothing to do with tor by itself, you can think of it as a replacement to qemu or virtualbox (but not exactly). Qubes has official support for both Whonix and Tails.

It looks like whonix is what you are looking for, from wikipedia:

> Unlike Tails, Whonix is not "amnesic"; both the Gateway and the Workstation retain their past state across reboots

[torified]

Cool, thanks for the info. I think I'll try out virtualbox with Whonix.

[dang]

Some of those posts get autokilled by software, but moderators review them and unkill the legitimate ones. This is how I came across and unkilled yours.

[torified]

Thanks a lot, dang. I was hoping a mod would see my edit.