Re: [Tails-project] 31C3 report

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Author: sajolida
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Subject: Re: [Tails-project] 31C3 report
intrigeri:
> One concern I have with this hype, though, is that many people seem to
> be under the mistaken impression that Tails is meant to be a "secure
> OS". And then, if they're mere users, they have a mislead impression
> of security; and if they're security folks, when they realize that
> Tails is not much more hardened than any Debian system, they freak out
> and wait in a row to tell us how much hardening Tails lacks, one after
> the other. I think we should write a blog post to clarify this for
> these two audiences: current status of the project, our goals for
> 2015, the minimal hardening improvements we've made, the fact we won't
> have time to seriously work on deep security-related changes before
> next year, "how to help" ideas, the usual usability/security balance
> we strive to find, etc.


I'm in for that. I could work on that at the beginning of February but
realistically not earlier.

> We had interesting discussions there. As a result, we've received our
> first patch against our Puppet modules ever
> (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7125)


Woh! I trust you to keep this person busy with new tickets!

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sajolida