Re: [Tails-dev] Searching documents in an airgap Tails

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Author: Loic Dachary
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To: anonym
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Searching documents in an airgap Tails
Hi,

Maybe a less ambitious goal would be to have tracker-gui and tracker-miner-fs only, from Debian GNU/Linux stretch. Do you think they deserve to be included in Tails ?

Cheers

On 01/08/2018 01:58 PM, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Hi Anonym,
>
> On 01/08/2018 11:28 AM, anonym wrote:
>> Loic Dachary:
>>> Journalist using SecureDrop decrypt and read documents in an airgap Tails. I wonder which tools are available to search the documents stored in their persistence.
>>
>> What about GNOME Files' built-in search functionality [1]? It works well enough for me (although I can imagine it is slow if 1000s of files are involved) so I first would like that answered before proceeding with the rest of your email.
>
> GNOME Files search[1] is based on Tracker[2] and supports a number of formats. Unless I'm mistaken it would require an upgrade to nautilus 3.26[3] to get full text search. Tails 3.3 has nautilus 3.22 and after upgrading to 3.26.2 (from Debian GNU/Linux sid with apt-get install nautilus tracker tracker-extract tracker-miner-fs) it worked with a simple manual test. Even if nautilus is not the best full text search it would be a great improvement :-)
>
> Do you think such an upgrade would be possible ?
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Files#File_indexing_and_file_search_framework
> [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker
> [3] https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/blob/master/NEWS#L40
>
>>
>> [1] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-search.html
>>
>> Cheers!
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