Re: [Tails-testers] Improve New DVD Documentation

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Author: sajolida
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To: Tails list for early testers, Michael English, tchou
Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] Improve New DVD Documentation
Michael English:
> Hello,
>
> The new installation instructions look great for new users. I would like
> to make an addition to the burn Tails on a DVD page. Similar to how you
> noted the security vulnerabilities of running Tails in a virtual
> machine, I would note the security advantages of running Tails on a
> read-only DVD (DVD-R). One could use it on a public computer without any
> worry about the image being modified. As a result, users can only setup
> persistence on USB drives. Take a look at this page in the existing
> documentation: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/media/index.en.html .


DVDs have some benefits for security by the fact of being read-only but
they also have some important security drawbacks in the context of
Tails. See https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9832.

So our point for the time being was to not mention anything special
(neither advantages nor drawbacks) but to put more emphasis on USB
sticks because this is what most people are interested in and because
the drawbacks of DVD are harder to explain.

Still, we also have #9884 to improve on this at some point.

Does it make sense?