On gio, 2025-02-27 at 12:00 +0100, NoisyCoil via Tails-dev wrote:
> To be fair, unless I'm missing something, that can hardly be
> considered telemetry given that the only identifiable information
> that could be stored with boot count is the IP address (plus
> possibly the Tails version, if the boot count happens during upgrade
> availability check as reported elsewhere), and the IP address is
> anonymized by Tor. But I guess it's matter of definition.
To be fair and friendly, it is perfectly understandable for me the
extent, the scope and the usefulness of boot count.
And I can reassess the trust I have for Tails and the people that work
and maintains it, using also my little money contribution.
OTOH this is telemetry; the only way not to have telemetry is not to
phone home at all.
Ages ago I publicly spoke about this.
Today IMHO Tails is not perfect, and this is one reason to say this,
but is the absolute best.
Keep up the good job. Marco
> 27 feb 2025, 11:52 da marcoc_maillist@???:
>
> > AFAIK, in fact, Tails does telemetry, only for boot count.
> >
> > On gio, 2025-02-27 at 10:21 +0100, boyska wrote:
> >
> > > Edan Osborne:
> > >
> > > > I just read the recent post about replacing balenaEtcher with
> > > > Rufus in the Windows install guide. However, something struck
> > > > me as odd. The post mentioned that "people who install Tails
> > > > from macOS represent less than 10% of installations nowadays."
> > > > My first question is simple. How exactly did Tails arrive at
> > > > this figure without telemetry?
> > > >
> > >
> > > We don't have a specific figure, but we're pretty sure it's not
> > > many,
> > > based on:
> > > - Tails doesn't work on recent Apple models at all (different
> > > architecture)
> > > - Tails had serious compatibility issues for previous apple
> > > models
> > > - despite this, the amount of support requests we receive for
> > > Apple is
> > > much less than what we get for other computers
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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