Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails

[Austin English]

On Feb 16, 2016 2:42 PM, "anonym"  wrote:
>
> Austin English:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Spencer 
wrote:
> >>> Austin English:
> >>> write a wrapper for the greeter to detect if those files
> >>> are present.
> >>
> >> It could also detect hidden partitions, correct?
> >
> > Possibly, I'm not sure how that would be accomplished myself..
>
> If you are referring to the "hidden partition" flag, then detection is
> trivial. This flag is just that, a bit somewhere that if set, software
> may *pretend* to not see it, if that has been implemented. :) Yes, a
> piece of software not implementing the hiding would see it, just like
> any other partition.

I'm familiar with that, I'm assuming that could be automated with fdisk or
similar. I didn't know if there was (potentially) something more nefarious
at play.
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Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails

[Austin English]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Spencer  wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>
>> Austin English:
>> write a wrapper for the greeter to detect if those files
>> are present.
>>
>
> It could also detect hidden partitions, correct?
>
>
> Wordlife,
> Spencer
>
>
>
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Possibly, I'm not sure how that would be accomplished myself..

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Re: [Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails

[Austin English]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Spencer  wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>
>> intrigeri:
>> don't keep a record
>>
>> never looked deeper than the root directory
>>
>
> No worries (:
>
> Wordlife,
> Spencer
>
>
>
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Those files can definitely end up in lower directories (from what I've
seen of other live usb sticks).

I was thinking about this last night, it likely wouldn't be too hard
to write a wrapper for the greeter to detect if those files (or other
similar files/directories, like __MACOSX) are present. It should then
be possible to pop up a very big warning in the greeter, ideally
before the user has a chance to type in their persistence password (if
used) or before starting a session.

That would also allow differentiating between Windows and OSX, but I
don't think that differentiation matters in practice.

Thoughts? If there's interest / lack of opposition I'll file a ticket.

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Re: [Tails-dev] [liveusb-creator] [PATCH] Add additional syslinux gptmbr.bin path

[Yuval Adam]

Please ignore last patch and use this updated one
>From 65a2b31fa89ff27251ae30ad3bb3a22d4ef6dff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuval Adam 
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:08:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add additional syslinux paths

This path exists on Arch Linux systems, and since liveusb-creator is now
packaged for Arch we should probably add it
---
 tails_installer/creator.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tails_installer/creator.py b/tails_installer/creator.py
index 38ec961..4683c3c 100755
--- a/tails_installer/creator.py
+++ b/tails_installer/creator.py
@@ -997,6 +997,7 @@ class LinuxTailsInstallerCreator(TailsInstallerCreator):
 for com32mod in com32modules:
 copied = False
 for orig_dir in ('/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios',
+ '/usr/lib/syslinux/bios',
  '/usr/share/syslinux',
  '/usr/lib/syslinux'):
 com32path = os.path.join(orig_dir, com32mod)
@@ -1227,6 +1228,7 @@ class LinuxTailsInstallerCreator(TailsInstallerCreator):
 for mbr_bin in ('/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/gptmbr.bin',
 '/usr/lib/SYSLINUX/gptmbr.bin',
 '/usr/lib/syslinux/gptmbr.bin',
+'/usr/lib/syslinux/bios/gptmbr.bin',
 '/usr/share/syslinux/gptmbr.bin'):
 if os.path.exists(mbr_bin):
 return mbr_bin
-- 
2.7.1

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[Tails-dev] Physical Ethernet Adapter

[Spencer]

Hi,



 Spencer:
Does Tails natively support external internet adapters?



intrigeri:
Yes, most of them (USB ones).



Is this limited to either ethernet or wifi?

Some more questions:

How is Tails planning on addressing the lack of built-in ethernet ports, 
now and in the near future?


I ask because I am working on the internet experience, as it relates to 
the startup flow.


Given the ever increasing lack of ethernet ports on devices, and the 
increasing use of Tails as a security distribution, it seems valuable to 
investigate support for ethernet adapters and external wireless cards, 
PCI, USB, Thunderbolt, and so on.


What do you think?

Wordlife,
Spencer



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[Tails-dev] Notes of the contributor-meeting-20160203

[Spencer]

Hi,



sajolida:
not tracked explicitly anywhere at the moment.



No worries (:

Wordlife,
Spencer



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[Tails-dev] Hacking Team looking at Tails

[Spencer]

Hi,



intrigeri:
don't keep a record

never looked deeper than the root directory



No worries (:

Wordlife,
Spencer



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