Re: Debian Desktop Environment

[Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com>]

Security and privacy are not products. No software provides them as a 
finished product ready for consumption. Software is just a tool used in 
achieving either. One must also ask and answer: security against 
_what_?. The habits of the user are just as important, and very often 
they are the weakest link.

In other words, do not think that you have privacy or security just 
because you are using some particular security-related or 
privacy-related piece of software or protocol, like GNU PG, Tor, TLS or 
an hypothetical hardened Desktop environment; these software do their 
job, and usually are good at it, but if you have bad practices, then you 
will be turning all of that software into just a hindrance to an 
attacker. Just for en example, study the case of "dread pirate roberts".

El 27/10/15 a las 08:16, Michael Jones escribió:
> I prefer xfce but why just comes down to preference, it feels cleaner,
> faster and simpler, but that's just me
>
> Only way to find out is to give them all a go (at least on livecd)
>
> Privacy is the same across all, although gnome3 has some extra gui for some
> preferences for wiping temp files i think, (could be done with a crontab)
>
> Security wise i'd expect them all to be roughly the same again, the main
> sec vulns on desktop come from software for login or screenlock stuff thats
> generic (although these are rare), your far more likely to have vulnerable
> user space applications than the dm itself.
>
> So the only thing to pick off is preference and feel really
> On 27 Oct 2015 1:51 pm, "Mateusz Kozłowski" <mateuszk@hush.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security
> > and the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE,
> > GNOME etc.)?