Author: intrigeri Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list CC: Everything about freepto, matth Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [Freepto] Let's share username,
/etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions
Hi,
[dropping Patrick from Cc, as he obviously reads tails-dev@.]
Patrick Schleizer wrote (15 Aug 2014 21:17:17 GMT) : > Let's think again of examples where this might happen. And then
> determine with which strategy users would be better off in
> which case.
I think it's a useful approach.
> - ssh uses <username> for login if not explicitly told otherwise
> -> server knows you're a Tor user anyway -> better off with shared value
Note that the "Tor user" anonymity set is much larger currently than
"user of an anonymity-focussed distro", so your conclusion (about this
example and others) is not *that* obvious to me.
