On 01/25/2015 01:12, sajolida wrote: > spencerone@???:
>>>> Maybe this exists somewhere in discussions or documents, but what is
>>>> the
>>>> reasoning behind not having TAILS be a portable application, you
>>>> know,
>>>> like drag and drop installation? Because that might be the most
>>>> suitable experience for everyone, presuming it is not a security
>>>> vulnerability.
>>>
>>> We need to run straight from the hardware or otherwise we rely on the
>>> host operating system to be trustworthy (and we shouldn't). This is
>>> for
>>> example the case in virtual machines, you can run Tails in a virtual
>>> machine but if your host operating system is buggy, then your Tails
>>> can
>>> be monitored, hacked, etc.
>>
>> But doesn't drag and drop address this? I am thinking about
>> TorBrowser,
>> for example. Oh wait, I mean drag and drop so I can easily throw it
>> on
>> some external hardware, e.g., flash and run from that, not be able to
>> throw it onto another computer, though I understand that is an
>> inherent
>> possibility with portable wares.
>
> If you mean "run from that" *after restarting the computer* then you
> are
> proposing a simpler interface to Tails Installer and we need to have it
> ported to Debian and Ubuntu in the first place before being able to
> consider this.
I do mean run TAILS from external hardware, e.g., flash, after shutting
down the host machines OS. And, in the appropriate development order,
it would be great to have this "simpler interface to Tails Installer".
