Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac

From	Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac
Date	2014-04-30 17:07 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/30/14, 4:24 p, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2014.04.29, 14:54 , Fred Moore wrote:
>> I posted this on Macintouch and got no response, but perhaps someone
>> here can opine:
>>
>> I recently read an article from Wired about Tails, a *Nix-based OS using
>> encryption, Tor, and no local storage:
>>
>> Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to
>> Evade the NSA
>> <http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails/>
>>
>> There is a download link for Tails in the article. Anyone here have any
>> experience with it? I wonder if you could install Tails in a virtual
>> machine on a Mac and achieve anonymity and security that way.
>
> That may defeat the purpose - at least with Fusion - since it uses the
> Mac's ethernet services to access the network and web.  I had the same
> thought and I found some blog entries claiming that running Tails in a
> VM would be self defeating.  At least for anonymity.  You could run it
> there to learn about it.  I haven't but it's in my curiosity queue.

Thanks, Alan. That's the kind of info I was looking for but didn't 
really know enough about the topic to Google for an answer. I had a 
suspicion that somehow somewhere something from the Tails VM would get 
written to a Mac cache, var file, or whatever, thus defeating the 
purpose of the entire effort. So I suppose a dedicated piece of hardware 
is really what's necessary.

I noticed on Macintouch today that a new version of Tor is available, 
with a Mac variant. Exactly how much benefit is there in running that on 
a Mac without an underlying OS such as Tails? What sort of identifiers 
get left behind to track you? Thanks.

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'Tails' OS and the Mac Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2014-04-29 14:54 -0400
  Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 16:57 -0400
  Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-30 09:24 +1200
    Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 20:35 -0400
      Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-30 13:54 +1200
        Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-29 22:11 -0400
          Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-30 16:12 +1200
      Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2014-04-30 14:06 +0000
        Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2014-05-15 10:39 +0000
          Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2014-05-16 11:32 -0400
    Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-02 17:44 +0000
  Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 21:24 +0000
  Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-30 16:24 -0400
    Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2014-04-30 17:07 -0400
      Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-30 17:57 -0400
        Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-30 18:09 -0400
          Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2014-05-02 13:02 -0400
            Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-03 11:59 +1200
              Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 09:36 -0400
                Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-04 10:18 +1200
                Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-03 18:57 -0400
                Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-05-04 07:58 -0400
                Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-05 08:56 +1200
        Re: 'Tails' OS and the Mac JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-04-30 18:15 -0400

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