Hi,
sorry to hear about Freepto's end of development.
Anyway, i'd like to give a big THANKS to the development team; i started
imparting security and privacy workshops with Freepto, and it has made
very easy to show activists how to communicate privately.
I guess if you could merge some of Freepto ideas into Tails it would
benefit both audiences.
Thanks for your work; surely we'll meet again!!
Antonio
El 2016-03-14 01:09, boyska escribió:
> (italian verion below)
> ENGLISH:
> Freepto development has been discontinued
>
> During these years we developed Freepto with the main goal of providing
> a ready-to-use, encrypted OS to whoever was willing to abandon
> proprietary OS.
>
> For security reasons it is paramunt to keep Freepto always up-to-date.
> Unfortunately, this requires lot of time, and the current developer
> team is not able to keep up with it.
>
> Also, some choices we took 3 years ago now show up all their limits:
>
> - We considered that attacks such as malware were possible only in a
> limited number of cases and distinct from mass-surveilance techniques.
> It is now evident that we were wrong, and that advanced attacks are
> quite common
> - We preferred not using Tor extensively, thinking that the slowness of
> such a network would be too much of a burden to our users; in the
> meanwhile, Tor got faster, while we reconsidered that usability need a
> broad project, capable of writing good documentation and develop
> carefully designed interfaces
>
> Therefore, we are ending Freepto development.
>
> We suggest to Freepto users to give a try to Tails, a live OS focused
> on privacy and anonimity. Read more on Tails website:
> https://tails.boum.org/
>
>
> ITALIAN:
> Lo scopo principale di Freepto in questi anni e' stato quello di
> fornire un sistema operativo cifrato e pronto all'uso a chi volesse
> abbandonare i sistemi operativi proprietari.
>
> Il continuo aggiornamento di Freepto, al fine di includere
> aggiornamenti
> di sicurezza, risulta essere un processo critico. Purtroppo questo
> richiede molto tempo e l'attuale gruppo di sviluppatori che mantiene
> Freepto non e' piu' in grado di garantirlo.
>
> Inoltre, alcune delle scelte fatte 3 anni fa oggi presentano i loro
> limiti:
> - Avevamo valutato che il primo obiettivo era difendersi dalla
> sorveglianza di massa piuttosto che dagli attacchi mirati; e' stato
> poi evidente che gli attacchi mirati erano piu' frequenti di quanto
> potessimo immaginare
> - Abbiamo preferito dare una rete piu' veloce ritenendo poco usabili i
> sistemi basati su Tor; in realta' Tor e' diventato molto piu' veloce,
> e l'usabilita' di quei sistemi beneficia da un progetto ampio capace
> di produrre documentazione ed interfacce di qualita'
>
> Abbiamo quindi deciso di terminare qui il progetto Freepto.
>
> A chi sta usando Freepto consigliamo di provare Tails, un sistema
> operativo live orientato alla privacy e all'anonimato. Per saperne di
> più: https://tails.boum.org/
>
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