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The JonDo Live-CD provides a secure and pre-configued environment for surfing anonymously. The CD is based on Debian GNU/Linux. The beta version is available for download on:
After downloading the ISO-image it has to be burned on a CD or you may prepare a bootable USB stick.
An USB stick is much faster than a CD-ROM. To prepare a bootable USB stick you may use the tool
UNetbootin. You can find a short tutorial for using UNetbootin on the next page . With the boot medium you may restart the computer.
The JonDo live system offers the following boot options:
During start-up the user "jondo" is automatically logged in and the XFCE-desktop appears.
Double-clicking on the desktop symbol Home is starting the file manager Thunar. It is an easy to handle yet feature-rich file manager. File specific actions like creating or extracting of file archives, removing meta data (only for pictures) etc. may be found in the context menu if you right-click on a file or a directory.
JonDo provides a proxy that encrypts your Internet communication and conceals your IP address. Some applications included in the JonDo Live-CD are pre-configured to use JonDo as a proxy.
A Live-CD is not able to save data to use it after a reboot even if you have it on a bootable USB flash device. If you want to create or use an account for the premium services you have to save it on a USB flash drive or import it from such a device after start-up. In order to do so open the Account management panel in JonDo. There you will find the options Backup and Import of premium accounts.
The browser Firefox 6.0 is installed to surf the Internet anonymously. The profile JonDoFox is started for this purpose. This profile is optimized to surf the Web securely and anonymously and therefore configured in a rather restricitve way. Please, read the help pages regarding Cookies Management, JavaScript and Video-Download.
Icedove is Mozilla's Thunderbird modified by the Debian team. For this e-mail client two profiles were prepared: Default and JonDonym.
After starting Icedove and choosing a profile a wizard is launching trying to help you configuring your e-mail account. You only have to enter you e-mail address and your password all the remaining configuraion is usually done by the wizard. In most cases an IMAP-account is proposed for getting e-mails. Thereby, all your received e-mails are preserved on the mail server even if you shut down the session started with the Live-CD without a backup.
As an instant messenger and IRC client Pidgin is included in the Live-CD. The IM client is already prepared for an anonymous communication via JonDonym. As there are some things to be kept in mind while using Jabber we have already prepared dummy accounts for some Jabber servers.
You may deactivate the proxy settings for JonDonym in the respective account if you do not want to use it anonymously. While creating a new account, please note the hints to avoid DNS-Leaks in our instructions for Pidgin.
After choosing the dummy account that fits to your needs click on "Modify" and enter your nickname and your password. Thereafter, you may activate the account and set the status to Available. Please note: Jabber servers are usually only available via JonDo using the premium services. Exceptions are the servers swissjabber.org and draugr.de, which may be used with the free cascades as well.
In order to use the OTR encryption, open the Plug-In management in the main window via "Tools -> Plugins" and activate the OTR-Plugin.
A click on the button "Configure PLugin" is opening the configuration dialog of OTR. There, you have to choose an account and must create an OTR key.
Transmission is a BitTorrent client. You may download torrents or create them yourself.
The VoIP client Skype is installed too. As there are stories about trojans hijacking your Skype account/session in the media every now and then you may use the Live-CD to avoid that threat.
Using ProxyChains you may anonymize applications running in a terminal. Its configuration is already adapted to JonDo. To administrate servers anonymously you may use e.g.:
> proxychains sshMPLayer and VLC Media Player allow to watch/listen to different kinds of media. VLC Media Player can play Internet streams as well. Thereby, JonDo is pre-configured as a proxy. For a smooth rendering of video streams you need JonDonym's premium services as the free ones are way too slow for this purpose. However, you may save video streams with them as well (but, of course, that lasts a bit longer).
USB flash drives may be encrypted with dm-crypt or TrueCrypt in order to allow a secure data transfer to other computers or to save backups.
dm-crypt encrypted USB flash drives are detected automatically and are mounted after entering the proper passphrase. You may create an encrypted USB flash drive using the Live-CD.
In order to open a TrueCrypt container, please start TrueCrypt in the program menu Accessories. TrueCrypt containers are above all a proper means of exchanging data with Windows computers.
Office documents and pictures contain lots of information in the meta tags that may deanonymize their author. Before uploading them to the Internet you should remove this meta data.
Meta tags in pictures and image files may be deleted in the file manager with a right-click. Choose the option "Remove meta tags" in the context menu. You may select and clean several files at once if you press the <CTRL>-key simultaneously. In the properties dialog of the file manager you may check the success of your attempt to delete the meta information.
Change the file extension of your document to ".zip" and open this file afterwards in the Archive Manager. Both actions are available with a right-click on the file itself. In the archive manager you delete the "meta.xml" and close it again. Then you revert the file extension to the old value. The cleaned document does not contain any information about its author etc. anymore.
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