Couldn't one simply use Tails in a VM the way JanusVM was designed to run and get the benefits of tails without having to reboot constantly from a general purpose use OS to a task-specific OS (Tails)? It would be nice to run Tails in a VM and have your main OS up and running for virtually everything else you need your computer for.
On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 08:19:58 AM [email protected] wrote: > Something come up to my mind... Vulnerabilitys could be, > - the user forgets to start the VPN, or > - the VPN connection breaks down for some reason (Windows bug or crash), > traffic continues without Tor > > I like the basic idea of JanusVM. I can say nothing about the concept of the > deployed virtual machine but those vulnerabilitys I posted here could be > fixed using a software firewall in whitelisting mode. Everything incoming and > outgoing blocked expect the VPN connection. > > Furthermore the VPN connection and the firewall should be forced enabled by > an administrator and all applications should run as user. Not sure if that's > best possible. Probable the Tor transparent proxy approach [1] is even better. > > What I liked about JanusVM is that it's very easy to install and use. > > [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
