Re: [Tails-dev] Endless Data Attack and Defense

intrigeri:
>> As far I understand the tails_htp init script (in Tails), it does not
>> check if the Internet (Tor) is available or not.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this service is started by
> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/20-time.sh, once networking is up and
> Tor is working. AFAIK we don't rely on it working properly offline.

Yes, I missed that one.

> (I must admit I've not looked at --connect-timeout in details yet, and
> I don't intend to do any such thing before someone else does their
> homework first, so I've no idea if that timeout is about TCP or HTTP
> connection yet, which makes it hard to discuss the matter at
> hand seriously.)

As far I understand from man page, search engine and source code,
--connect-timeout is for TCP timeout.

Cheers,
adrelanos