Re: [Tails-dev] Debian popularity contest

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Autor: adrelanos
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> Hi,
>
> adrelanos wrote (26 Oct 2012 10:42:48 GMT) :
>> did you consider participating with Tails in Debian popularity
>> contest? (popcorn)
>
> I don't remember doing more than disabling it,
> as a way to avoid having to think about it.
>
>> I saw you disabled it, but couldn't find an explanation in
>> the Design.
>
> First, Tails has no outgoing SMTP client configured by default,
> so popcon would not work out of the box.


It tries http first.

> Second, even if Tails had the needed facility, I'm unsure Debian mail
> servers would accept email coming from Tor exit nodes.


Valid point.

> I suppose we
> could setup a dedicated limited SMTP relay as we have for WhisperBack,
> but that is quite some effort to setup and maintain. Personally, I'm
> not interested in doing this work.
>
> Third, I like Tails not to call home by default,
> and only then, we can make exceptions when we feel it safe and needed
> (e.g. the security issue check).


I considered it for Whonix today and it's a real bad idea to add it.
Reasons are listed here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Security/#popularity-contest

If you are interested I could adjust it for Tails and add it to the
Tails design.

Cheers,
adrelanos