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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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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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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