Hi, Dean Pierce: > Would it be blasphemous to run some sort of software update at boot? > Ideally some sort of very visible indicator displaying the date of the > most recent security update would be nice too. I feel like these > vulnerability gaps are inevitable, and trying to avoid them with > tricky scheduling would just make release schedules overly complex, > and even then it doesn't really help much against an adversary who > isn't bound to such schedules.
Tails contains a mechanism that, at boot time, executes a check for upgrades. This could be used to display warnings if there is indeed a security issue, and has been used for this in the past. Cheers! u. _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
