Re: [Tails-dev] Tails control port filter proxy in Whonix?

2016-11-10 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I got side tracked with other stuff. My first and summary impression is, that this is looking excellent! ./tor-controlport-filter --listen-address 9052 Tor control port filter started, listening on 9052:9051 Do you see any reason in Whonix not to use the

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails control port filter proxy in Whonix?

2016-11-10 Thread Patrick Schleizer
> [...] >> In conclusion, I think the truth is that Whonix switching to our filter >> will require some work to reach feature-parity with you current filter, >> and you will not really gain anything by doing so except code sharing. >> YMMV. That said, I'd happily implement match-hosts and the two

Re: [Tails-dev] Tails control port filter proxy in Whonix?

2016-11-10 Thread Patrick Schleizer
anonym: > https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2016_09/#index2h1 > > and look at the documentation at the top of the script, and the filter > rules we ship to get an idea of what it can do. > As you can see, in Tails we use match-exe-paths and match-users a lot, > but since you won't have

[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 2.8

2016-11-10 Thread anonym
Hi, I'll be the release manager for Tails 2.8, which is a major release scheduled on 2016-12-13. The list of tickets targeting Tails 2.8 can be found here: https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?query_id=217 Below you'll find the preliminary release schedule for Tails 2.8. I

[Tails-dev] Tor Browser 6.0.6 is ready for testing

2016-11-10 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi all! Tor Browser 6.0.6 is ready for testing. Bundles can be found on https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/6.0.6-build5 This release is updating Firefox to 45.5.0esr fixing important security bugs. Moreover, other components are getting an update as well: Tor to 0.2.8.9,