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Emacs. Everything.

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Over 26 million people from ex Soviet states were killed in world war 2 fighting facism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union

+1 for the FOSS philosophy and why that's important when it comes to privacy (ie closed source crypto implementation back doors etc) + full system control, lack of spyware etc. KVM for the VM demo - keep it Linux, right? Introduce the concept of how almost everything in Linux is a file and can be read from / written to. This is important when understanding pipes. Show pipelines - logical && ie cat x | grep y | grep z. Logical || ie grep -E 'x|y|z' Useful commands like top and ps. Explain selinux and why it's a good idea.

Start with a pre-installed laptop for an easy life? https://itsfoss.com/get-linux-laptops/

gre implies you want to run dynamic routing over the tunnel but no routing is configured? If you don't need dynamic routing (why would you on a P2P tunnel?) but do want privacy then use IPsec or SSH instead?

You have no control over how an adversary accesses the drive, so no.

Tbh that article seems like a sales pitch more than analysis of Red Hat's licensing changes.