Re: [Tails-dev] DeepOnion project

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Author: Tobias Frei
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] DeepOnion project
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Where is this going at?

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 18:52 Vaas ! <vaasdls@???> wrote:

> Hi Tails Project,
>
> We are glad to let your Team know that we were working on the Debian
> Repository in the last months with our Development Team and we did a lot of
> progress on it. We took your words about doing something first as a way to
> earn the trust from your members and who that we want to help and build
> something for the good of all with real commitment.
> Right now we are even looking for a mentor for Debian (I don't know if
> some people from your Team can help us with this) but all the hard work
> seems to be done and we are on the testing phase.
> We would like to know if one of your Team would like to Talk with us on
> Wire, we can set a meeting with our Developers for testing purposes and
> then, we can cooperate together for donations (we would like to donate to
> your project in reward for some advertisement) and even future improvements.
>
> Hope we can get in touch soon and again, thank you so much for your time.
>
> Best Regards,
> Vaas, DeepOnion.org Moderator.
>
>
> On 22 May 2018 at 03:51, Vaas ! <vaasdls@???> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your quick response and sorry for writing you back a bit late.
>>
>> I have been talking with our Developers and they started to work on the
>> Debian Repository, we hope this cycle can be good for both of us.
>>
>> I will send you more details in the future.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Vaas, DeepOnion.org Moderator.
>>
>>
>> On 7 May 2018 at 08:10, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Vaas !:
>>> > In the past I contacted your project regarding to donations for your
>>> > platform, DeepOnion is an anonymous Cryptocurrency that uses Tor and we
>>> > have been donating to the Tor project just to be grateful for their
>>> > development, also helping with more Nodes to the network.
>>>
>>> > People from the Tails Project said that it could work if we create a
>>> Debian
>>> > Repository for it since your software uses Debian and we can handle
>>> this
>>> > with our Development Team. I just want to update our conversation, to
>>> know
>>> > if we should go on with this Development and also if you can consider
>>> to
>>> > use our Wallet in your pre installed apps (maybe some download app)
>>> from
>>> > your OS in the future (of course this is not something that you must
>>> do but
>>> > we would be happy for it since some of our users use Tails).
>>>
>>> There are two aspects to this:
>>>
>>> 1. Allowing Tails users to use DeepOnion
>>>
>>>    Once your client software is in Debian (stable or worst case
>>>    stable backports), then Tails users will be able to easily install
>>>    and use it. If needed we can ship whatever tiny config file is
>>>    needed to make it go through Tor so that it works out of the box.

>>>
>>>    Creating a third-party Debian repository would also work but using
>>>    that is much harder (for Tails users) to set up and the amount of
>>>    trust they have to put into your project and its infrastructure is
>>>    much greater. So this might be a reasonable first step but I would
>>>    suggest you don't stop and that and instead include your software
>>>    in Debian proper :)

>>>
>>> 2. Accepting donations to Tails with DeepOnion
>>>
>>>    It seems that every cryptocurrency project around there has been
>>>    getting in touch with us in the last 2 years, requesting that we
>>>    accept donations made with their tool. We work with limited
>>>    resources and can definitely not support them all. If somebody
>>>    built an unbiased comparison that allowed us to draw a conclusion
>>>    like "it would be worth the effort to support cryptocurrency X,
>>>    here's how you would do it" then we might do it. But so far I've
>>>    not seen this happen. Needless to say, members of cryptocurrency
>>>    projects are not the best placed people to build such an unbiased
>>>    summary :)

>>>
>>>    And most of the time, to accept such donations we would need to run
>>>    software ourselves that's not in Debian, which our internal teams'
>>>    security policy forbids ⇒ point #1 above is relevant here as well.

>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> intrigeri
>>>
>>
>>
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