A journalist uses some apple computer. If its new, Tails won't be able to establish a network interface, so maybe there is a usb wifi dongle as well.
When entering boot mode (restart with option key pressed), in order to select Tails, wifi networks are shown.
You are suggesting that Apple is leaking the MAC address of the computer to all AP before Tails is even selected to boot from.
This suggests that any MAC address randomization the user intended to use for the built in computer wifi or the dongle via Tails will be partially defeated.
Many AP will log the original MAC immediately and one (the one chosen for wifi after Tails boots) will log the randomized Tails MAC.
Is this correct assumption?
EDIT: After rereading it sounds like you are saying they DO randomize probe packets and the scenario I describe above does not occur, NO MAC is leaked during Tails boot selection process on apple hardware.
Obligatory reference to previous HN discussion of Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson [1].
I'd be interested in any war stories or links to compilers verified with things like: Cryptol [2], Coq [3] or Idris [4].
I've seen Cryptol prove equivalence for cryptographic algorithms written in C and Java. Would love to learn more about how this approach can or can't be applied to compilers.
BitMessage has greater latency (~2 Mins?) but is fully P2P, given the cost estimates for a server upthread, I wonder if bandwidth concerns are the reasons for a client server architecture over P2P...
My understanding is that BitMessage achieves its non-content privacy guarantees by sending each message to all clients, and then the latency is the result of the Proof of Work and some other concepts borrowed from BitCoin.
I'd love to hear more about it if you have time.
In particular, I'm interested in the P2P vs Client-Server trade off, is Vuvuzela workable in a fully P2P network, say over WebRTC?
I suppose in an ideal world fact checking, but thats not my experience of late.
It makes me wonder if the Pirate Party was onto something with Kopimism [1]. When Ethereum [2] takes off, we should create some similar religion oriented around journalism.
A journalist uses some apple computer. If its new, Tails won't be able to establish a network interface, so maybe there is a usb wifi dongle as well.
When entering boot mode (restart with option key pressed), in order to select Tails, wifi networks are shown.
You are suggesting that Apple is leaking the MAC address of the computer to all AP before Tails is even selected to boot from.
This suggests that any MAC address randomization the user intended to use for the built in computer wifi or the dongle via Tails will be partially defeated.
Many AP will log the original MAC immediately and one (the one chosen for wifi after Tails boots) will log the randomized Tails MAC.
Is this correct assumption?
EDIT: After rereading it sounds like you are saying they DO randomize probe packets and the scenario I describe above does not occur, NO MAC is leaked during Tails boot selection process on apple hardware.
Can anyone confirm this?