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

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Author: intrigeri
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails
Spencer wrote (22 Feb 2016 17:31:44 GMT) :
> 1. The device may become compromised before becoming a Tails device. In this case,
> the files/partitions are either hidden or protected and are not removed
> during reformatting.


FWIW, I'm unsure how applicable this is in practice (assuming non
malicious storage _hardware_): Tails Installer asks udisks2 to create
a new partition table. I don't know what it takes to confuse udisks2
to the point it believes it has succeeded.

Cheers,
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intrigeri