Tony Mellor: > Hi,
>
> It seems to me that Tribler has the same end goal as Tails which is to
> remain anonymous.
>
> Allow me to outline how this might be achieved on the live CD/USB versions.
>
> 1. The downloaded/partially downloaded files would need to be stored on an
> encrypted persistent volume.
> 2. Tribler stores all it's torrent and content information under the hidden
> directory ~/.Tribler
> 3. This .Tribler folder can be a soft link to the persistent volume.
> Therefore when the persistent volume is closed none of the data can be
> accessed.
> 4. A small script could be written to check that the .Tribler data is
> available and set up the soft link in amnesia and then launch the program.
>
> Proof of concept:
>
> I have already successfully tested the soft link idea on Ubuntu using two
> identically named LUKS encrypted volumes (USB Drives).
>
> 1. After loading one of the volumes I started a download of a file.
> 2. I closed Tribler and unloaded the encrypted volume and removed the USB.
> 3. I loaded the second USB drive and started Tribler again.
> 4. I started the download of a different file to the first.
> 5. I closed Tribler and removed the encrypted volume and loaded the first
> USB.
> 6. Started Tribler again and saw the first download file which continued as
> normal.
>
> Concept proved.
>
> Problems:
>
> Tribler did show the initial warning each time. This may have been due to
> something I had done and needs verification. Even so, this is not really a
> problem.
>
> Problems installing Tribler into Tails:
>
> 1. There are a number of dependencies that needed to be installed.
> 2. The main road block is that Tribler depends on a later version of Python
> than the one packaged with Tails.
>
> Reasons for making it part of Tails.
>
> As we all know everything we do on a system leave some kind of trace,
> metadata, thumbnails, etc. Tails is the perfect solution because all this
> trace data is lost when Tails is shut down.
>
> People wishing to share information to a wider audience from countries with
> an oppressive regime would have another tool at their disposal. (Although
> seeding is not completely secure yet but they are working on it.)
>
> I hope that you consider this proposal and can see that Tribler would make
> a great addition to the Tails package.
>
> If not can I ask that you package future Tails releases with the latest
> version of Python so that mere mortals like myself can install Tribler
> ourselves.
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
