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

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Author: intrigeri
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To: Maxim Kammerer
CC: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: 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.)


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