Clean up TAILS project descriptions
Robert Ransom

Robert Ransom commited on 2011-02-22 04:30:33
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     Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
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     <br>
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     Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i>
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-    <p>Tor helps greatly publishing files anonymously. However, much personal
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-    information can be enclosed *inside* such published files meta-data: GPS
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-    coordinates, authors name and so on. Anyone who wants to anonymously
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+    <p>Tor helps greatly in publishing files anonymously. However, much personal
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+    information can be enclosed *inside* such published files' meta-data: GPS
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+    coordinates, author's name and so on. Anyone who wants to anonymously
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     publish a file can thus far too easily de-anonymize herself.</p>
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-    <p>A set of tools allowing to easily inspect and cleanup meta-data in files
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+    <p>A set of tools allowing users to easily inspect and clean up meta-data in files
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     would benefit Tor users, and would e.g. be shipped in TAILS.</p>
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     <p>A graphical user interface is a must, but library and command-line
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     interfaces are most welcome so that future work can add support for
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-    published files cleaning to various publishing tools, such as Desktop
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+    cleaning published files to various publishing tools, such as desktop
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     social networking clients and Web content management systems.</p>
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-    <p>This project mostly consists in writing glue between the many existing
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-    tools and libraries that provide read/write access to files meta-data. An
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+    <p>This project mostly consists of writing glue between the many existing
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+    tools and libraries that provide read/write access to files' meta-data. An
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     extensible program design would probably be the best bet, so that support
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     for other kinds of files can easily be added later.</p>
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     <p>The meta-data cleaning toolkit would run at least on GNU/Linux;
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     <br>
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     Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i>
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     <p>Data persistence is a somewhat tricky topic in a Live system context,
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-    especially one explicitly designed to avoid leaving any trace of its use
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-    such as TAILS.</p>
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-    <p>Some real-life usecases however require to setup some kind of data
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+    especially one such as TAILS, which is explicitly designed to avoid
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+    leaving any trace of its use.</p>
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+    <p>Some real-life use cases, however, require some kind of data
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     persistence. To start with, TAILS should (carefully) support persistence of
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     application-specific configurations (e.g. GnuPG keyring) and of a user
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     arbitrary data store. Note that persistence in TAILS will always be opt-in
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     and require encrypted storage.</p>
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-    <p>The backend part work consists in improving Debian Live existing
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-    persistence features to make them suit the specific TAILS context. A trust
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+    <p>The backend work consists of improving Debian Live's existing
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+    persistence features to make them suit the specific context of TAILS. A trust
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     relationship is already established with upstream who is happy to merge our
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     changes. The codebase is not that small and much refactoring is needed, so
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     this really is a programming project rather than a fire'n'forget shell
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     <p>Anyone undertaking this project must be familiar with GNU/Linux, and
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     preferably with Debian. Being able to (quickly learn to) write clean and
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     safe programs in shell is also needed.</p>
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-    <p>For more information see <a href="https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/persistence/">https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/persistence/</a></p>
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+    <p>For more information, see <a href="https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/persistence/">https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/persistence/</a>.</p>
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