On 12.09.2013 18:12, The Doctor wrote:
For folks that have not yet gone poking around inside a copy of TAILS
installed on a USB key, Moon refers to the contents of the file
filesystem.squashfs
Thank for for the detalied description. Very useful. Myself I did not
know all that you have written.
like tripwire data, or at least some fingerprints and a file list
to confirm the libs haven't turn against you overnight.
AIDE would be ideal for this, one would think. It is much more
lightweight than Tripwire, and could be set to run at boot or login time.
I have chosen tripwire because of its «quite obvious» name. But AIDE
looks like a better solution.
TAILS does seem to be somewhat problematic in this respect. For
example, I tried to install a couple of Firefox plugins that I find
very useful (Scrapbook and Calomel-SSL, if anyone is interested) and
they didn't persist across reboots. A little irritating, but perhaps
it's for the best.
That's pretty much the answer Tails should not be used as a regular
distro. That and Intrigieri's point: before modifying Tails one should
know more both about Tails and Debian.
I was thinking for my everyday system portable from one computer
to another without touching the installed hard drive. The config
is different. And I'm afraid to break stuff.
This makes me wonder just how much abuse TAILS can really take before
it breaks down...
Tails is good at what it does. But it's not an universal solution.
Poking around distrowatch again I find it discouraging how much junk
there is. Maybe hundreds of repacks of nvidia and ati/amd proprietary
drivers labeled as «ease of use» and almost nothing on privacy. Than, if
people would be interested in privacy there won't be a Snowden talk.
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