Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc…

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Hi,

Maxim Kammerer wrote (22 Jan 2013 18:00:00 GMT) :
> So in summary, I am all for making leaked information homogeneous, but
> only if there is actual possibility of leaks.


I understand Liberté's smaller set of software and bottom-up design
might allow to go as far as questioning the possibility of leaks
altogether, but as far as Tails is concerned, I'd rather not bet we'll
be building and maintaining a perfect blacklist of every possible leak
forever, and have always up-to-date configuration and patches to fix
it all. I simply prefer not to take the risk. Therefore, I'm totally
fine with going the security in depth way, and making this
information homogeneous.

Before I call it a proposal, I'd like to see the next point clarified,
though:

> Otherwise, it hurts usability.


I'm sorry but I don't see how. Could you please elaborate?

(In Tails case, I think the major place where this information is
exposed to the end-user in the Terminal; to my eyes, anon@liberte,
amnesia@amnesia and user@host all look equally bad to me from
a usability perspective.)

Cheers,
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