Autor: intrigeri Datum: To: Maxim Kammerer CC: The Tails public development discussion list Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username,
/etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions
Hi,
intrigeri wrote (01 Feb 2013 01:17:47 GMT) : > 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.)
