intrigeri: > Hi, > > adrelanos wrote (26 Oct 2012 10:42:48 GMT) : >> did you consider participating with Tails in Debian popularity >> contest? (popcorn) > > I don't remember doing more than disabling it, > as a way to avoid having to think about it. > >> I saw you disabled it, but couldn't find an explanation in >> the Design. > > First, Tails has no outgoing SMTP client configured by default, > so popcon would not work out of the box.
It tries http first. > Second, even if Tails had the needed facility, I'm unsure Debian mail > servers would accept email coming from Tor exit nodes. Valid point. > I suppose we > could setup a dedicated limited SMTP relay as we have for WhisperBack, > but that is quite some effort to setup and maintain. Personally, I'm > not interested in doing this work. > > Third, I like Tails not to call home by default, > and only then, we can make exceptions when we feel it safe and needed > (e.g. the security issue check). I considered it for Whonix today and it's a real bad idea to add it. Reasons are listed here: https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Security/#popularity-contest If you are interested I could adjust it for Tails and add it to the Tails design. Cheers, adrelanos _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
