James <[email protected]> writes: > Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net> writes: > > >> > So I just read about how Tails is now available on Debian [1]. > >> > [1] https://bits.debian.org/2016/02/tails-installer-in-debian.html > >> > [2] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/bootstrapping/installer/ > > Trimmed down per gmane posting rules. Could you provide a link, so I could look into the rules, as the gentoo.org pages dealing with the lists show no difference to what I am used to on other lists.
--snip-- >> There are gentoo based systems with security in mind, but I am not very >> positive about re-creating Tails on current state of Gentoo. I have to rephrase this. It is possible, but I personaly don't see a benefit in reinventing the 10th generation of wheels (a widespread issue). For research, well, why not. > Hmmmm. LikeWhoa, one of the gentoo devs, put together a gentoo install > system from usb, that includes persistence, quite some time ago. [B] > > >> Tails and/or Whonix have tried and shifted focus away from Gentoo >> for reasons which can be read on their github repo wiki and with >> good websearches. See next reply. > Tails is the tor-node on a usb, with persistence, or did I miss some of > the deeper capabilities? Having a debian and gentoo similar (anonymous) > device does seem a bit enticing to me. For sure it'd be a great additional > protection for credit card usage over the net, in addition to the existing > pathetic protections folks currently have. > > I certainly appreciate your candor. However, I cannot find the listing of > issues with these aforementioned codes(packages) on gentoo. All I think I > really need it the software (packages) listings and some guidelines and > gotchas. Also you should look at Anthony's excellent works [C]. I'd > ceratainly appreciate a bit more detail (private email is ok too), or a > 'data dump' on exactly what problems exist. My interest is to master a > similar device for stealth usage, that is gentoo centric. Most of the pieces > seem to be present, so it's mostly an integration and testing effort? Okay, I think I was wrong. I got mixed up with Whonix and Tails coming together, what whonix did run into is listed here: https://github.com/Whonix/Gentoo-Port/issues Back then I did not look very closely. It might be that some of the 1 - 1.5 year old issues are closed now. I only did stop because I became sceptical on some parts of the Gentoo project and looked for better solutions to topic unrelated issues. Currently I am interested in doing the same thing with GuixSD or with Gentoo running Guix, although that's a rather long term project and not my primary focus of interest. > James > > > [A] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/HardenedGentooTG > > [B] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-995118.html > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Install_Gentoo_on_a_bootable_USB_stick > > [C] http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat-howtocook > > > -- ng
