An amnesic Whonix

[pano]

What would you do to get as close as possible to Tails’ amnesic feature, but in Whonix, used inside VirtualBox?

My first thought is to save all data I need in an external, encrypted USB, and then either:

• Restore the initial VMs snapshots daily, for both Whonix workstation and gateway
  or
• Use Whonix live, as in https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_Live - I understand this is only available in Whonix 14, which isn’t considered stable yet?

And a stupid question: where can you see the currently installed Whonix version? whonixcheck does not show it.

Thanks in advance and sorry about the noob questions.

[0brand]

My first thought is to save all data I need in an external, encrypted USB, and then either:

Restore the initial VMs snapshots daily, for both Whonix workstation and gateway

Using snapshots is good idea. However, I don’t thing this method would be considered amnesic since data is written to Virtual HDD not VRAM like Whonix live mode

I would not use this method if an amnesic feature is requried.

In lieu of the above method, I would wait for Whonix 14 (Whonix live mode)

There is another option

https://whonix.org/wiki/Computer_Security_Education#Using_Whonix_on_External_Media

https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

where can you see the currently installed Whonix version? whonixcheck does not show it.

If the apt sources.list show that you’re pulling from the jessie repo, its Whonix 13. If it shows stretch repo, its Whonix 14

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list

[Algernon]

The Whonix Live package in Whonix 14 does not do too much. I guess you could just install it as well on Whonix 13, just make a snapshot before installation. Or follow the steps here: https://phabricator.whonix.org/T714 if you want to do it manually. Whonix 14 is not out yet but you can still download it. Just because it is a dev/testers version doesn’t mean it is broken (could still happen though). If you encounter any issues please report them.