Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2016-02-04 Thread intrigeri
Hi, I've just stumbled upon an issue [1] open by Jake on Subgraph OS bug tracker, about this topic, so I thought I would close this thread that's still lying in my inbox, and sum up the process that lead us to a (not implemented) conclusion. Last time we discussed it over 2013 and 2014, first on

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2014-08-22 Thread Griffin Boyce
intrigeri wrote: As you can see in my comment #6 there, it's unclear to me what's best, between sharing fixed values and randomizing it. Each solution has pros and cons. What do you think? So I think that a better approach is to pick some themes that are common and create a list to randomly

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2014-08-22 Thread u
Hi, Griffin Boyce: intrigeri wrote: As you can see in my comment #6 there, it's unclear to me what's best, between sharing fixed values and randomizing it. Each solution has pros and cons. What do you think? So I think that a better approach is to pick some themes that are common and

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2014-08-15 Thread intrigeri
Hi, [explicitly Cc'ing people from the Guardian Project, Whonix, Freepto and Subgraph OS.] I'm coming back on the shared username/hostname thing, that was rediscussed a bit lately, with input from Freepto and pointers to Subgraph OS code, on a Tails ticket:

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-04-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Maxim Kammerer wrote (03 Apr 2013 21:26:30 GMT) : On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, intrigeri intrig...@boum.org wrote: I think we should not wait any longer for Maxim's input on that one, and I propose we just do it (todo/change_username_and_hostname ticket). Deadline: 0.17.2 final

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-25 Thread sajolida
On 21/01/13 16:25, intrigeri wrote: Hi, adrelanos wrote (20 Jan 2013 10:41:45 GMT) : Wouldn't it be a fine (and easy to implement) improvement to set those values to a shared value telling as little as possible? I agree. Thanks for proposing it. Adding Maxim to the list of recipients

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-25 Thread adrelanos
sajol...@pimienta.org: My proposal would then be: username: user /etc/hostname: host /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 host.localdomain host The git commits for next Whonix version (no date determined yet) have been done. Unless the proposal changes, it will appear in next Whonix version. Makes sense

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-23 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: (/etc/conf.d/hostname in Liberté) can be potentially disclosed via DHCP requests, but dhcpcd has been configured to avoid that Just recalled another place while updating configuration: default Bluetooth adapter name

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-22 Thread intrigeri
adrelanos wrote (22 Jan 2013 14:16:03 GMT) : a Tails Todo ticket has been created by me, I hope it was appropriate. https://tails.boum.org/todo/change_username__44_47__etc__47__hostname_and___47__etc__47__host/?updated Thanks! I just allowed myself to rename the ticket to a name that is

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM, intrigeri intrig...@boum.org wrote: Adding Maxim to the list of recipients (Maxim: in case you don't read tails-dev anymore, please go read the email I'm replying to in the list archives :) Hi, I'm subscribed to the list, just a bit busy lately. I intended to

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, adrelanos wrote (20 Jan 2013 10:41:45 GMT) : Wouldn't it be a fine (and easy to implement) improvement to set those values to a shared value telling as little as possible? I agree. Thanks for proposing it. Adding Maxim to the list of recipients (Maxim: in case you don't read tails-dev

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-21 Thread adrelanos
intrigeri: Hi, adrelanos wrote (20 Jan 2013 10:41:45 GMT) : Wouldn't it be a fine (and easy to implement) improvement to set those values to a shared value telling as little as possible? I agree. Thanks for proposing it. Adding Maxim to the list of recipients Thanks. (Maxim: in case

Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-21 Thread intrigeri
adrelanos wrote (21 Jan 2013 16:19:56 GMT) : intrigeri: Adding Maxim to the list of recipients Thanks. I suggest you bounce your reply to him, then :) ___ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev

[Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions

2013-01-20 Thread adrelanos
Hi! Why? Username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host can leak through the protocol or files. For example: - ssh uses username for login if not explicitly told otherwise - username (as part of the path) is sometimes encoded into user created content (images, firefox screenshot addon). Maybe only in