All,
A quick follow-up to suggest that clearing the Tails screen saver/slide show require the key-press combination used to invoke it. A passer-by could otherwise restore the screen and reveal Tails with a single key press.
This should perhaps be the case even when an admin password is set, as Tails' password entry screen doesn't look very "Windows".
regards,
alienpup
alienpup wrote:
> All,
>
> I believe hiding Tails' UI would prove too resource intensive and
> ultimately futile. It just can't be done and maintained well enough to
> fool sharp-eyed observers. After all, the first thing a passer-by does
> is study your screen. It's human nature and very hard to resist.
>
> Tails users could however benefit greatly from a simple slideshow
> screen saver that can be invoked instantly. Tails could ship with a few
> uninteresting "stock" images and provide users the option of adding
> more. Once invoked, Tails could not be distinguished from Windows.
> Screen locking would remain dependent upon setting an admin password.
>
> regards,
> alienpup
>
>
> geb wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Hans:
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > > I am wondering, why tails no more get an undercover mode. IMO it is very
> > > dangerous for users, if their window manager is not looking like the normal
> > > window manager used everywhere, especially in countries, where any "strange"
> > > desktop might cause attention on authorities.
> > >
> > > This problem could be easily solved. Most users are running either windows or
> > > MacOS. For windows you can just use XFCE + kali-undercover, for Mac-design
> > > there are several windowmanagers available (there is coming ElementaryOS in my
> > > mind).
> > >
> > > As you do only need the window-manager design, there should be no risk change.
> > >
> > > I might remember, tails got this option some years ago, but somehow this is
> > > gone. Dunno why....
> >
> > This camouflage option has been removed because the theme that proposed
> > this feature was not working anymore, and because of lack of resources
> > to work on it. You can read a bit more about that here :
> >
> > https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/10830
> >
> > https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/update_camouflage_for_jessie/
> >
> > Unfortunately, the problem is not that easy to solve. As you can see on
> > the previous links, reintroducing this feature using gnome themes would
> > requires lot of work (at least at the moment these links were updated).
> >
> > Proposing other desktop-environments may looks simpler, but it would
> > requires even more work, for UX, documentation, testing, ensuring
> > everything works fine, keeping the image small enough etc, not only when
> > integrating these desktop environments, but also for every releases.
> >
> > That said, maybe things have improved since last updates on the previous
> > links. So if you are interested to give a deeper look of how it could be
> > done in practice, that may be a small but important step :-). I did a
> > quick testing of https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1216281/ (which is nice
> > also because it has been maintained since a few years now). It seems the
> > menus are only for Cinnamon, but maybe I did not tested it enough.
> >
> > --
> > geb
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