Very known OSs vs Lesser know OSs

[th3l4st]

"What category of OSs do you prefer when it comes to privacy? The big-old-known ones or the new less-known ones?"

That's a question that came to my mind some days ago while watching an interview to R. Stallman where he blames Canonical for putting a feature in Ubuntu he saw as a sort of spyware (can't blame him). All of us, for example, confronted ourselves at least once with someone saying Tails is backdoored. What pushed me more into this clash is the fact that one of the developers of ParrotSec OS said "I prefer a less-known OS I develop and I'm sure has not any backdoor than the big ones that, like Tails, are always in the crosshairs of spy agencies and the likes".

As far as I'm concerned I find Sheireen's (the aforementioned developer) view to be better and I stick to Parrot, what do you think about it?

[truecam]

The known ones. If something is popular, then most likely a good deal of people using it, which makes it hard for governments to sort through the data, even if they have a back door. That is also why I think people should use tor, I know it is unsafe, but if everyone starts to use it, then governments will have a hard time sorting through it. Like a needle in the haystack.

[th3l4st]

I totally agree on what you say about Tor, by mass using it governments would be mass flooded with encrypted data they have no means (or at least shouldn't) of decrypting, making programs like PRISM useless. If I remember well it should be a thing covered in an article of last year's summer issue of 2600 and in a talk by Zoz at DEFCON22.

I still can't trust Tails too much though...

[raixpoo]

Yeah unless the goverment controlls the whole product which is pretty likely in this case since the U.S  publicly funds our beloved tor project.
I believe they have a means to store all this data and sort through it with ease but most of us are safe since we are not involved in high-level political schemes, those that do find them in the crosshairs of the agencies are not heard of in the media once disposed.

P.S it is what i believe in and am afraid of.

[th3l4st]

That was the point I wanted to discuss. The fact that we are not involved in any political scheme to me doesn't save us, the problem is mass surveillance! I too think they play their cards in a manner in which their aces are not shown unless really necessary, the fact the US Government funds Tor even though it is a stick up in his ass bugs me too...