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

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Autore: intrigeri
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Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails
> I was thinking about this last night, it likely wouldn't be too hard
> to write a wrapper for the greeter to detect if those files (or other
> similar files/directories, like __MACOSX) are present. It should then
> be possible to pop up a very big warning in the greeter, ideally
> before the user has a chance to type in their persistence password (if
> used) or before starting a session.


> [...]


> Thoughts? If there's interest / lack of opposition I'll file a ticket.


Sounds like this could possibly help educate users about a dangerous
practice, which seems great! Perhaps the proposal could include a part
about what action this warning would suggest to the user?

2 more cts: the exact wording should probably not expose the feature
as a malware detector (since a Tails system can't verify itself
reliably, the way it's currently designed).

Cheers,
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intrigeri