Re: [Tails-dev] Fw: schneier.com comments

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Author: Tobias Frei
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Fw: schneier.com comments
Hi bert,

thank you very much for the brief explanation. It makes me sad that some
people try to make users afraid of using Tails, and it makes me very happy
to see that the developers of my favorite USB operating system confront
this scaremongering bravely. ^.^

Best regards,
Tobias Frei

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 12:11 bertagaz <bertagaz@???> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 06:27:43AM +0000, goupille wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > a user send us that...
> >
> > cheers.
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > FYI from last 100 comments @ Schneier.com:
>
> This is FUD someone is spreading since some time on the schneier website
> comments. She didn't read the warning on top of the
> tails-autotest-remote-shell script probably:
>
> # ATTENTION: Yes, this can be used as a backdoor, but only for an
> # adversary with access to you *physical* serial port, which means
> # that you are screwed any way.
>
> Whisperback send *encrypted* messages to us through hidden services. If
> someone
> is able to change its behavior, is that she is root on your machine and
> thus
> you have other problems.
>
> The same apply for the do_not_ever_run_me script.
>
> > I don't know what I'm speaking about, I've just read the script name.
> >
> > You are warned.
>
> Would be a more correct quote rather. :)
>
> bert.
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