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Or just wipe the HDD and install a fresh OS? I have to admit that I'm uncertain exactly what the goal is.


Github says the goal is to hide your privacy from customs agents. That's the honorable use of this. But is a tool, and just like any tool can be used for both bad or good things. A scammer or spammer will have use of this faster then a person facing customs agents.


A fresh OS is pretty suspicious.


It takes almost no time to reinstall an OS, install a few games from steam.

If you want you don't even need to wipe your install and have a bit more time to spend, you can dual boot and remove the other boot option temporarily from GRUB / MBR or whatever the windows equivalent was.

Or fetch out a few github repos if you don't want to install steam games. :)


I'm not sure I understand your response. Am I missing something in my original comment?


My reply was to say that it's relatively easy to make a clean install not look 'fresh' :P


Fair.


A zeroed drive and a stock OS install, surely unlikely to have any hidden data.




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