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>For the NSA-agent wishing to leak, a good idea is too look into HaikuOS, MenuetOS etc and use those instead of GNU/Linux, or ArchHurd. Something very rare, something unexpected.

Is that really the best idea, though? One of the things Linux has going for it is a couple of decades worth of public scrutiny and hardening.

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The suggestion is that hardening is less valuable than obscurity. As long as your choice is secret and uncommon you'll probably be safer than a well known hardened OS.

And thats why Schneier probably isnt using Windows but its a diversion. Takes tinfoil hat off.

The attackers are NSA.

It is stupid to think that obscuring the OS would delay them by any more than a couple of hours at best.

On an air-gapped machine? How would they determine the OS, so long you're careful about how the files you export are written? The article rules out TEMPEST and physical attacks.

How would they know if it's not on the internet?

If Intel have put a backdoor in then the OS does not matter.

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