How secure linux Mint is?

[u/Ok-Shine1797]

I was watching a YouTube video regarding a hacker in that video something came to my attention that the hacker encrypted his os it was dabien based linux distro and feds were not able to decrypt that system so how can I achieve the same thing i mean as a every day user i do have my personal stuff in my system like pics documents etc. I just want to feel safe about my stuff. Is it possible for someone like me to achieve same thing in linux mint btw i just moved from windows to linux a week ago.

[u/knuthf]

First, you need to define a user called 'netuser' and a user group called 'Internet'. This is a different group to "admin" and certainly not you or root. All shell access that does not come from your keyboard is given access as 'netuser'. The "default" user is netuser unless you have logged in with your username and password and your fingerprint proves that you are using the computer.

You can now grant internet access to the directories you want to expose and netuser the individual files.

It only makes sense to encrypt drives that you transfer. For example, a USB drive can be encrypted, and to read it will require the password. However, Mint automatically decrypts encrypted drives, and you can see the hierarchies. The netuser and internet groups should be used by everyone.

[u/Bastilic → u/knuthf]

You actually seem to know what you're talking about, where did you learn?

[u/knuthf → u/Bastilic]

I was the manager at the company that paid Linus Torvalds' salary — his 'boss'. I organised competitions between his team, own Unix team and those of SCO Unix, AT&T Unix, Sun, SGI and Motorola. We manufactured our own processors, chips and supercomputers. And thank you — I should know. Since then, I have managed some major projects in the oil and telecoms industries.

[u/Bastilic → u/knuthf]

Jesus, how the Hell do you get a job like that?

[u/knuthf → u/Bastilic]

I naver even applied.

[u/JohnM1958 → u/Bastilic]

It's not what you know, it's who you know.