Feature #16535

Privacy-preserving way of counting Tails installations

Added by sajolida 2019-03-06 12:52:43 . Updated 2019-03-06 12:55:13 .

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2019-03-06
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Description

Cf. the countme proposal of Lennart Poettering for Fedora:

For Tails, we could send a “countme” along with the fetch of the security update feed every time a persistence is mounted in a new month, based on the “Last mount time” of /dev/mapper/TailsData_unlocked.

This would allow us to count the unique installations of Tails with persistence used in a given month (or week) in a privacy-preserving way.

It would complete the picture that we already have on:

I can’t imagine how we could count the number of installation of Tails without persistence but we have data about the portion of Tails users with persistence elsewhere already (WhisperBack reports).

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Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #14531: Create a blueprint about the future of metrics Confirmed 2017-08-30
Related to Tails - Bug #17545: Consider having Tails systems report their version to us Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2019-03-06 12:53:26

  • related to Feature #14531: Create a blueprint about the future of metrics added

#2 Updated by sajolida 2019-03-06 12:55:13

  • Description updated

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-22 11:11:04

  • related to Bug #17545: Consider having Tails systems report their version to us added