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Programming, school, and everything else.
You don't need a security focused distro to hide the hentai from your mom, nor to shield your 0.0047 XMR from hackers.
And you dont need a lemmy account for posting useless comments
I do actually, you can't post as guest.
Why are you looking for security so much with that, besides paranoia that is. Welcome to the club.
they are afraid they will be targeted by the government for existing
source: I know someone who does that paranoid shit, they are like 19