Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails

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Autor: Austin English
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Asunto: Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails
On Feb 16, 2016 2:42 PM, "anonym" <anonym@???> wrote:
>
> Austin English:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Spencer <spencerone@???>

wrote:
> >>> Austin English:
> >>> write a wrapper for the greeter to detect if those files
> >>> are present.
> >>
> >> It could also detect hidden partitions, correct?
> >
> > Possibly, I'm not sure how that would be accomplished myself..
>
> If you are referring to the "hidden partition" flag, then detection is
> trivial. This flag is just that, a bit somewhere that if set, software
> may *pretend* to not see it, if that has been implemented. :) Yes, a
> piece of software not implementing the hiding would see it, just like
> any other partition.


I'm familiar with that, I'm assuming that could be automated with fdisk or
similar. I didn't know if there was (potentially) something more nefarious
at play.