Feature #5629

Robust and strict New Identity feature

Added by Tails 2013-07-18 07:43:45 . Updated 2015-08-26 10:47:28 .

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Rejected
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Normal
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Discuss
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Description

In order to provide a better alternative to Vidalia’s ‘New Identity’ feature, see disable Vidalia new identity feature (Feature #5716) we want to provide a fast way to start the whole Tails session.

A safe way would be to actually reboot the system, we could try to speed up this process and advertize it well if we want the users to use it well. For example, there could be a ‘Start a new session’ button on the Desktop. We could then ask the user whether to reuse the current Tails-greeter settings and do a reboot through kexec.

If this solution is not satisfactory in terms of speed, we could also try to remove, possibly through aufs, all the files modified by this session and start a new Gnome session and restart the needed services. This solution will probably be more complicated to implement and more blacklist-oriented than the first one.


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Related to Tails - Feature #5716: Disable Vidalia new identity feature Rejected

History

#1 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 10:57:51

  • Subject changed from robust and strict New Identity feature to Robust and strict New Identity feature
  • Description updated
  • Starter set to No

#2 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-02 21:13:50

  • related to Feature #5716: Disable Vidalia new identity feature added

#3 Updated by BitingBird 2015-08-25 11:48:08

  • Type of work changed from Research to Discuss

I don’t see the point. I think telling users to reboot is enough and this is not worth the work.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-26 03:53:08

Indeed, resetting Tails to some pristine state (enough to prevent linkability) would imply tons of work, as lots of our stuff is not idempotent nor easy to revert. I say we should drop this idea.

#5 Updated by BitingBird 2015-08-26 10:47:28

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected