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

2016-03-12 Thread intrigeri
Patrick Schleizer wrote (25 Feb 2016 23:00:22 GMT) : > As agreed back then. Thanks! ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to

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

2016-02-25 Thread Patrick Schleizer
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

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

2014-08-22 Thread sajolida
Tobias Frei wrote: I wonder if the idea of using a random username has a serious problem: It makes every [Tails / anonymity distribution] session uniquely identifiable if the username gets sent in any way. And we *do* assume that it gets sent, because that's basically the idea behind the

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

2014-08-22 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi! sajol...@pimienta.org: Note that in the case of Tails, we recommend our users against doing this. Which is mix different identities in a same working session: https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/#index8h1 Whonix has a similar warning:

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

2014-08-16 Thread intrigeri
Hi, [dropping Patrick from Cc, as he obviously reads tails-dev@.] Patrick Schleizer wrote (15 Aug 2014 21:17:17 GMT) : Let's think again of examples where this might happen. And then determine with which strategy users would be better off in which case. I think it's a useful approach. -

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

2014-08-16 Thread Tobias Frei
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I wonder if the idea of using a random username has a serious problem: It makes every [Tails / anonymity distribution] session uniquely identifiable if the username gets sent in any way. And we *do* assume that it gets sent, because that's

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

2014-08-15 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi! intrigeri: 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: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5655 As you can see in my comment #6 there, it's unclear to me