duc...@disroot.org: > I posted a question back in September about the Tails Greeter. I wanted > to know if making changes to Language and Region settings in the Tails > Greeter had any negative privacy implications, like making it easier to > fingerprint users. "u" responded that it would be better to ask the > Help Desk. > > The response I got from the Help Desk was vague and didn't help me > understand the issue better - they even changed their mind after their > first response and sent me a correction, but it was a bit vague too. The > truth is I don't think the person who responded seemed to know the > answer for sure, they were just going on some personal testing. I asked > some follow-up questions for clarity but that was in September and there > was no response.
Interesting user story... Sorry about that :/ > I looked back at "u"'s email and noticed the full name of this group is > "Tails user experience & user interface design", and I think this query > falls strongly under "user experience" _and_ "interface design". > > I checked in the Tails Greeter Help menu (clicking on the (?) in the > Tails Greeter) and there's no mention there of privacy implications. I > think this should be remedied. Users should be comfortable knowing what > impact changes to the Language and Region settings may or may not have > on user privacy. If there is no impact, users should still be informed > so that the paranoid ones (and that's why they're using Tails after all) > can be confident. I agree. Surprisingly, it's not even clear to me what the implications of the Language and Region settings can be on privacy. So I'm moving the discussion to tails-dev@boum.org in order to ask our fellow developers. Slowly but surely we might get an answer :) -- sajolida Tails — https://tails.boum.org/ UX · Fundraising · Technical Writing _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.