Hi, When upgrading a tails machine today, I noticed that the default download link is HTTP. We've done some statistics on the number of users that actually bother to download signatures - it basically borders on none for some software. Does Tails find that for every ISO, users download the signature? Ten to one? Perhaps one out of ever thousand downloads?
I really strongly encourage that the default download link should be secure - if there was a tool to download updates and it automatically checked the signatures, I'd think it was perhaps OK to use HTTP. Probably not but well, I could at least believe that someone might complete both steps. Without such a tool, I think this is merely a recipe for disaster. We carry a secure mirror here: https://archive.torproject.org/amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/ If you guys can't handle HTTPS traffic, I really encourage you to link to our HTTPS site as the default. If nothing else, I believe that some browsers also pin our certs. That at least changes the game to something a bit harder. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
