On 13/03/13 22:41, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was discussing laptop choices for use with tails today; I wasn't able
> to find an easy reference for laptops that people suggest for use with
> Tails.
There isn't such a list. The only list that is maintained by Tails is a
blacklist of hardware with known issues:
https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/
> It would be nice to have a list of laptops, especially cheap netbooks,
> that work flawlessly with Tails
It could be easier to look for a list of laptops that work flawlessly
with Debian and has at least 1GB of RAM. Then they should work with Tails.
The other day I used Tails on a Acer Aspire One D270 that you can find
for less than 250 €. But maybe you're thinking of even cheaper notebooks.
> as a bonus, it would be nice to note
> which laptops have a built-in microphone and/or webcam.
> I think such
> hardware features make a given laptop into a tempting surveillance
> device post-exploitation. It would be nice to have a collection of
> laptops that even if exploited would only give an attacker a small
> amount of (persistent or in memory) data.
