On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:39 AM, sajolida <[email protected]> wrote:

> Soul Plane:
> >> Soul Plane:
> >>> The Tails homepage has an install Tails link with an installation
> >>> assistant
> >>> but it doesn't have the ISO. That requires several click throughs and
> >>> then
> >>> it tells me I can install a Firefox add-on. I am visiting the right
> >>> website, tails.boum.org. I do not want that or to put Tails on a USB
> >>> drive.
> >>> I want a fresh copy of Tails for each release and then I put it on DVD
> >>> and
> >>> use that until the next Tails release when I repeat the process.
> >>>
> >>> There also used to be a page for downloads which is no longer working.
> >>> https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
> >>>
> >>> Just give me a direct ISO and sig link please!
> >>
> >> Here you go:
> >>
> >> https://tails.boum.org/install/download
> >>
> >> We'll add back links to this page on different place "soon".
> >>
> >> Thanks for your feedback!
> >
> > Thanks but I want to download the ISO without a torrent. I mean I want to
> > download it and the sig file directly and there's no longer a link to do
> > that even on the download page. I visited google cache and found a link
> to
> > the old download page which links to http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/ and I
> have
> > found Tails 2.2 and the signature there. That is what I think you should
> > link to on your website.
> >
> >
> http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.2/tails-i386-2.2.iso
> >
> http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.2/tails-i386-2.2.iso.sig
>
> We want to avoid shortcuts that make it easier to download without
> verifying the ISO image. We believe this brings more security to our
> users and also reduce our user support load. So no, we won't do this.
>

Don't forget that many of your users are educated people and know how to
verify a signature. It would be nice to offer an 'advanced' page
alternative for them rather than torrenting or installing a browser add-on,
both of which have privacy implications. If you torrent you expose your IP
to other clients as downloading Tails and if you download via browser
add-on then you leave a trace on the computer that you are using, if you
are allowed to install add-ons. Though I guess you could then delete the
add-on, not sure if that leaves a trace.
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