Package: tails-installer Version: 4.4.6+dfsg-1~bpo8+1 Severity: wishlist I just tried tails-installer from backports today.
I got presented with this dialog: http://paste.anarc.at/snap-2016.02.11-09.21.24.png Here, if I click on the "(Aucun)" ("(None)") button below "Use existing Live system ISO:", I get presented with a file browser. It is not clear to me what I am expected to do at this point. I will take a wild guess, and assume I am supposed to go on https://tails.boum.org/ and download an ISO. But I actually get served with another Wizard where I need to click through and eventually am asked to switch web browsers and install a firefox addon or download some torrent thing. That all sounds very strange to my insecure little mind. I am exaggerating, of course, but I was expecting something more like the tor browser launcher, which actually downloads the software for me and does the busy things of verifying crypto signatures and everything. That way there is a trust path between me and the developpers that does not depend on the CA cartel (as I understand the current approach seem to depend on). Maybe such a trust path already exists and the installer does some more verification later on - I haven't checked in the code (or more precisely, couldn't find that it does actually check the .sig) and it doesn't provide any visual feedback that it does check the signature. But it sure would help in usability if the launcher could download some stuff on its own. There's a python-libtorrent library in Debian which could be used to download through bittorrent, even: http://libtorrent.org/ It is the library behind the Deluge client: http://deluge-torrent.org/ Some sample code is available from Stack Overflow (CC-BY-SA 3.0): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5400828/how-to-write-a-simple-bittorrent-application This should be fairly simple to implement... Still: it is a huge improvement to have this software available to install tails! Previously, setting up Tails was a surprisingly difficult undertaking and this is a huge leap forward in usability. Congratulations to everyone involved and thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tails-installer depends on: ii gdisk 0.8.10-2 ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.42.0-2.2 ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1 ii gir1.2-udisks-2.0 2.1.3-5 ii mtools 4.0.18-2 ii p7zip-full 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u1 ii policykit-1 0.105-8 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-configobj 5.0.6-1 ii python-gi 3.14.0-1 ii python-urlgrabber 3.9.1-4.1 ii syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1 tails-installer recommends no packages. tails-installer suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
