Hi, (a month after I've sent my proposal to reject #11052)
sajolida: > If those who are fine with the current situation are the vast majority, > then we might be degrading the experience for most. Thanks for this detailed analysis (which I agree with). Meanwhile, segfault suggested something on #11052: bring back the behaviour we had before 3.13.2, that is, if the Tails device is unplugged while the system is sleeping, and still unplugged when the system is woken up, then emergency shutdown is triggered. It's unclear how much work that would be but I think it's worth giving it a try and do it if it turns out to be cheap. And then IMO this would bundle nicely, as our default settings, with keeping "suspend when closing the lid" enabled (which would be nice, for all the reasons provided by sajolida and myself). What do you think? If we agree on this, I'll reject #11052 and will file a new ticket for us to implement segfault's suggestion. > I'm not saying this to discard the idea of giving the choice but to > contrast it with the potential cost of this choice. Now, we might find a > different way of giving the choice against cold-boot attacks without > degrading the experience for busy and distracted users. (Assuming we have the default behaviour I've described above, which avoids degrading the experience for busy and distracted users.) It may be nice to provide a way to somehow tell Tails "I'm going to close the lid but please don't suspend, because I want to keep the system up and able to trigger emergency shutdown if I unplug the Tails device". I see that as a new feature request with a tiny target user base, so to be honest, even if someone showed up and was ready to do the coding work, regrettably I suspect it would require more UX/design work and reviewing resources from us than it's worth, so I'm not sure how to handle this. Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
