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TAILS OS - do you use it? Anon needs help to improve it.
Posted by Anonymous on Fri 19th Apr 2013 10:52
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  1. TAILS OS - do you use it? Anon needs help to improve it.
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  3. New Anonymous project to curb Tails privacy/security issues!
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  5. Tails - new unofficial project to nip the buds
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  7. (Please see the .onion link at the bottom of this article for where to respond and help this project with your suggestions. Please do not post at the Tails forums, Tor mailing lists, or in IRC - we are only checking the existing thread at the .onion location below, which requires Tor to access.)
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  9. In a few areas of the Tails Forums, (one example below) Tails users have posted about certain 'data collection, logging, debugging, Whisperback', and other issues a distro such as Tails should not include!
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  11. I am working on a project which will stop this type of collection and it will be free and released with each new version of Tails (it won't be included with the Tails distro or worked on by Tails/Tor developers) – matching any changes the Tails team may make to try and obscure these data logging/collection activities between versions.
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  13. Here is one example post from a concerned user (post exists now, could be deleted later!):
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  15. Why does Tails log too much? .recently-used.xbel
  16. https://tails.boum.org/forum/Why_does_Tails_log_too_much__63___.recently-used.xbel/
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  20. An example of this is this hidden file: .recently-used.xbel located in amnesia folder. To see, open Home/amnesia, press Cntrl+h, look for that file. The contents of that file logs recently used programs and files with names and timestamps.
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  22. There are many other logs for different activities and events, a simple look around can locate these.
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  24. Caching thumbnails, recent documents, terminal command history and the similar..
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  26. Why would Tails need to log all these things during the session?
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  28. Some are useful for bug reporting, but many other arent and are widely revealing of system activities.
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  30. Yes, a restart will wipe everything, but what about while in the session?
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  32. Can an option be made for Tails to be log free or normal where the user can choose between the two? Like run log free and if a problem occurs to re-run tails with logs to identify the problem.”
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  36. There are debugging scripts, Whisperback, a script to drop all firewall protection, and much more in Tails.
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  38. I need more information from Tails users (Tails developers and those pretending not to be Tails developers posting against this will be ignored) before the first release is announced.
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  40. Boot into Tails and examine every nook and cranny and post about any file(s) with full path, which contain anything related to logging (excluding /var/log directories – those will be dealt with) and/or sending of individual personal data.
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  42. On their mailing list they even had the balls to discuss whether or not they should add the package 'popcon'!
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  44. This project will be developed by an anonymous user (not included in the well known 'Anonymous' group). I will not reveal usernames from posters here, but I may credit this forum with each release with thanks for the help.
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  46. So boot into the most recent release of Tails, sniff around as much as possible, and post back juicy information to the thread in 'NEWS': http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion
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  48. Thank you.

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