I used Whonix regularly on my old intel-based MacBook Pro, and understand that it’s not compatible with Apple silicon on my newer M1. Are there any alternatives out there that would provide similar privacy and security?

What should i do please

Which android emulator is suggested if the main goal is privacy? Looking for the one which is easy to setup, anbox's development has been stopped.

Hey there!

So I've been using TailsOS for all my super secure needs for a while now. But I've been really interested in Whonix and its capabilities.

Tails is nice since it's super compartmented and "feels" super secure. However, Whonix "feels" less secure since it must be run on a host OS, which gives me the impression that it is not as secure as Tails. Running Whonix on your regular OS just kinda feels wrong to me. And I know I could use an entirely separate OS as the host, but I still would feel uneasy being unsure of if the host OS may compromise my security/privacy/anonymity.

So I was wondering what you guys propose is the best way to run Whonix.

I'd rather not use Qubes, as I like the idea of being able to use Whonix and only Whonix, and I'm not really looking for the full OS suite Qubes offers.

Of course I am aware of the Whonix ISO that is in the works, and I look forward to seeing what that looks like. But considering there is no ETA I was wondering how I could use Whonix in the mean time.

If you guys wanna outline how you personally use Whonix that would be great too.

Thank you so much for your help!

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Is it supposed to do that? My main host machine is a windows system or is something somehow leaking

Hi I've been trying to get Whonix running to browse Tor, but I keep getting this error in the Whonix workstation, I've had the Whonix gateway running, updated it, ran systemcheck in it as well, which shows that everything is fine

But whenever I try to run the workstation, it keeps displaying the same error, I tried looking around for a solution but I really couldn't find one and I was wondering if anyone could help me out, this is the error that the workstation displays when I run the systemcheck (tor browser also doesn't work)

I'm not running multiple workstations either

Hi,

Hopefully someone here has access to the Whonix web developer. The Whonix website and an SSL Certificate error:

Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.whonix.org because this website requires a secure connection.

What can you do about it?

www.whonix.org has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it.

If you are on a corporate network or using antivirus software, you can reach out to the support teams for assistance. You can also notify the website’s administrator about the problem.

Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.whonix.org because this website requires a secure connection.

What can you do about it?

www.whonix.org
has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS),
which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add
an exception to visit this site.

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it.

If you are on a corporate network or using antivirus software, you can
reach out to the support teams for assistance. You can also notify the
website’s administrator about the problem.

might be because im a linux noob🤷‍♀️

im a linux noob so it might be because of that🤷‍♀️

Can’t load the tor browser nor can I configure in gateway tor console

Toying with the idea of integrating Kali to run with whonix but I’m not sure what the best way to go about it is. I’m pretty new at Linux but it seems like I could either run Kali as a vm inside my vm , install Kali-Linux toolkit through the terminal (assuming the Kali repository will work with tor method , or configure Kali to work with the kick secure gateway on a NAT configuration.

Are any of these workable or is it a waste of time ?

Hi friends.

Tor Bridges settings appear in my Arch Linux Tor, but not in my whonix Tor. Does this mean I can't enable Tor Bridges in Whonix?

Thanks in advance.

Stupid question as above

I hava a mac and windows laptop. I want to install Whonix on them to connect either public wifi or home wifi. But neither wifi seen to be safe to me. Is there any way I can safely connect to any wifi safely to protect my Whonix being compromised?

I post a question here in reddit and got answers like if your computer already compromised, install Whonix afterward might not protect your privacy. I just want to know what steps can absolutely protect me to safely install Whonix? Here are some examples I can think of:

1. Purchase a computer off the shelf (Hopping the hardware had not compromised by the manufacture or government?)

2. Factory reset the computer (But I heard there will be some malware can escape from factory reset?)

3. Run Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool like Wazuh to make sure malware-free, vulnerability-free and constantly monitoring, and then install Whonix (Likely to be malware-free after fix all vulnerabilties？）

Let's say my computer got hacked, either through network (for example, ISP), or malware, or physically hacked (installed hardware in my computer), will installing Whonix helps me to protect my privacy?

I have been involved in developing some privacy software, the software itself is actually utilizing tor natively, it does this one of two ways, by default it spawns and instance of Tor as a process and wraps it. Or you can supply execution args with the control port, IP and hashed password, but the only outgoing in a whonix-workstation is essentially through the TransPort port right? I dont to drop the interal tor wrapper in this app if it's installed into Whonix, as I am told that Tor over Tor is not good, but what's the best alternative without sacrificing security?

It's a Java app and it does use and network overlay to route through Tor, is it perhaps not appropriate for a Whonix-Workstation?

Thoughts would be appreciated!

PS. Please let me know if I have not been clear. (Naturally the same issue occurs in Tails, though I appreciate it's not supported here)

Playing with Whonix on a hobby computer from time to time.

Inside of Whonix there was not much hard drive space left out of the 97 GB or so allowed. Updated. After updating, system crashed/froze. On rebooting, the black screen eventually shows only a blinking white/grey underscore in the upper left corner no matter what.

Tried booting using old kernel/header thingies. Same thing.

Tried recovery mode but don't know what to do on it.

Tried LIVE mode and it booted up just fine like normal. I checked the hard drive space and it says 0 is available in it while in live mode.

Double checked that LIVE mode itself doesn't just cause the HD space to be seen as 0 by checking LIVE mode in another instance and I am correct; there is free space in LIVE mode in another instance.

What do I do to remove some space so that I can boot and removed even more space naturally?

This is the cause of the booting failure and the underscore blinking forever, right?

Moreover, if I remove something to make space to boot (assuming that's the problem), how will I avoid bricking the entire VM and data in it if something that was updating broke and didn't have enough space when it all broke?

My thoughts are I could remove all the old kernel/header thingies to free up boot space via some kind of recovery mode command but what if the remaining kernel/header thingy I was left running on was damaged somehow during the apparently broken update? Plus I don't know what to enter for the command.

For months, with every new version of Whonix appliances hosted in VirtualBox, I have gotten this error trying to change the default password. Every attempt at amelioration has failed: /etc/shadow permissions, read/write volume flags, yadda yadda...nothing works. Does anybody recognize this problem and know what's going on here?

Thanks for help!

I could not find any official statement about this on the Whonix documentation. Is it recommended or not recommended? Is there any way it could compromise anonymity if I enable nested virtualization for the workstation in VBox?

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Hi. I’ve ran whonix in VM (Oracle) just fine for a long time, but recently this month some applications like tor, or electrum won’t connect online.

But for example, things that don’t require connection like xKeyPass or GPA work just fine.

Nothings wrong with my internet; other OS’s connect to tor and electrum & all the applications that won’t run on whonix, all run fine.

What could be the issue? Or how might i go about troubleshooting? without having to completely wipe.

Again im running it through Oracle VMbox.

I've never had this error before, I haven't found any solutions...

My operating system is Linux, more specifically the "BigLinux" distro.