Re: [Tails-dev] Tails: pcmcia / firewire / etc.

2012-10-14 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > there is currently no other way to > enable physical DMA in Firewire than via firewire_sbp2 or via > unfiltered physical DMA (enabled by CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA). Ah, there is also CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT + ohci1394_dma=ea

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails: pcmcia / firewire / etc.

2012-10-14 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Steve Weis wrote: > There are two alternative driver stacks (e.g. ieee1394 and firewire-core) > and the docs talk about them both interchangeably. It's a bit confusing. The > CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA kernel hacking option may only be relevant > to the legacy

[Tails-dev] release schedule

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
Hi, as apparently I had committed myself to do so, I've just published the release schedule we decided upon at last Tails summit: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_schedule/ Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR finge

Re: [Tails-dev] tails_htp SSL fingerprint pinning

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
Hi, adrelanos wrote (27 Sep 2012 15:14:14 GMT) : > I think it would be good if tails_htp security would be > further improved. I agree. > Why not start pinning certificates? Probably because nobody designed and implemented a working solution yet. Looks like you started to. I'm glad you did, and

Re: [Tails-dev] tor check and time check script, perhaps useful?

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
Hi, adrelanos wrote (07 Oct 2012 17:43:53 GMT) : > I wrote two scripts, perhaps they can be useful for Tails as well? Thanks for the suggestion :) I've been thinking a bit about this startup UX / waiting UI, and I'm not sure we need/want that an invasive UI. The general case is "all right, noth

Re: [Tails-dev] More stuff in Transifex

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
intrigeri wrote (03 Oct 2012 18:39:31 GMT) : > The release process doc and translation doc likely needs updating. > IIRC the latter has a ticket already. * release process doc: done * translation doc: being worked on (see tails-l10n ML) ___ tails-dev ma

Re: [Tails-dev] Faking htpdate user agent worth it?

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Ague Mill wrote (01 Oct 2012 09:27:09 GMT) : > I think the overhead of not using '--head' and doing a full GET > would be marginal. It would make it at least a little bit harder to > distinguish from other requests. Fully agreed: this would make Tails' htpdate harder to distinguish from the T

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails-greeter UI redesign

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
hi, a...@boum.org wrote (04 Oct 2012 19:21:57 GMT) : > Well no answer so far... but I took some time to play on this, and > have some mockups to propose. Please test! > I'd like to hear about: > - your overall impression? I like it. > - should keyboard selectable independently from lo

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails: pcmcia / firewire / etc.

2012-10-14 Thread Steve Weis
Hi Maxim. I did not completely power off the system when I tried the test. I did a warm reset and booted to a USB drive. I'm not sure about the inconsistency with the debugging-via-ohci1394 docs. There are two alternative driver stacks (e.g. ieee1394 and firewire-core) and the docs talk about them

[Tails-dev] Unable to boot Tails 0.13

2012-10-14 Thread antispam06
It used to be a pain in the behind. I would use Unetbootin or some other tool to put an image on a USB thingie. Than boot that. Than use that image to clone it on a second USB stick. Than boot into the new one to test it and maybe create persistent media. Today I started the ISO with a VirtualBox i

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails: pcmcia / firewire / etc.

2012-10-14 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Steve Weis wrote: >> I think the kernel is working as expected. Debian and Ubuntu are both also >> vulnerable by default, since FireWire modules are loaded automatically. > > From Documentation/debugging-via

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails: pcmcia / firewire / etc.

2012-10-14 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Jacob Appelbaum wrote (13 Oct 2012 11:02:17 GMT) : > As this is a modular kernel - is there a reason not to simply add > a "enable firewire" widget? There are several I can see: * It is a UX failure every time someone has to go out of their way to have Tails work with their hardware. * Eve