Tails

[real_ale]

Can Tails OS be run on RPi

[DougieLawson]

No.

https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/requir ... ex.en.html

[Joe Schmoe]

Except for the parts about running only on X86, needing 1GB RAM, needing to boot from DVD or USB (and maybe a few other things), it would work fine.

[joeguru]

Why would you want to? Just install TOR, redirect your browser to use it as a proxy (including DNS resolution) and go for it. Make sure you have a "special" SD card to boot anonymous.

[UffTaTa]

@JoeGuru

because it's absolutly not the same. TAILS is a secure (one time use) OS, not only a browser. The most attacks to users browsing the internet is over the browser, using browser or browser plugin weaknesses. Using a TOR proxy but a normal Browser in your all-day OS doesn't protect you in any way for those attacks. In fact it makes you less secure because there are known attacks against TOR browsers known.

Therefore using TAILS (or another Live-CD OS) is the only way to protect you from that attacks. And not even from the attack itself, but from some of the more worse consequences (having a owned OS).

I would like to run TAILS on the Raspberry very much.

[pds]

I am also trying to run Tails on RPi. Has anyone tried porting it?

Thank you

[DougieLawson]

It's closed source. So impossible to port.

[kamikazejoe]

That's not correct. Tails is completely open source: https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/license/index.en.html

I don't think there is any technical reason someone couldn't port Tails to the Raspberry Pi. The biggest hurdle is likely the memory requirements. It would likely be unusable slow.

[Shoka]

Dubious.

That they charge an undefined "nominal fee" for sending you source is not a good sign.

The exemption they are hiding behind actually requires IIRC that the code be delivered with a written offer of the source code valid for a minimum of three years. That exemption dates from the days before widespread internet when source was delivered on relatively expensive media, and was intended to avoid the end user being compelled to purchase media for source that they did not want.

So there have been claims that it cannot apply to downloaded code delivery, since that cannot be accompanied by a written offer.

Since they are intentionally obstructing access to the source they are not honorable operators.

Such operations do not usually last long, and are definitely not worth investing your own time and effort in.

Harry

[AndrewS]

I was curious, so went digging...
The source code for Tails is available (online, and for no cost): https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/

The "fee for a DVD" is if you want a source code DVD for all the unmodified "parent packages" included by Tails and don't want to download that sourcecode directly from the Debian mirrors.
In order to comply with the GPL, as Tails are shipping you binary software, they have to legally offer the sourcecode that was used to compile those binaries to you, but it doesn't make sense for them to bother hosting it online. Because in 99% of the cases you'd just download the source packages from Debian instead...

Nothing "dishonest" going on. More info about the situation here.

[aTao]

Rather than port and slash(to fit) a whole OS, you might "torify" your applications.. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/to ... orifyHOWTO

Yes, there are other processes that connect, but you could disable them.

Or there is the isolating proxy method, but that needs 2 machines.