Relevant info from DPN

[Daniel Pocock]

On 19/02/16 18:30, GoOSSBears wrote:
> The Debian Project News(DPN)[1] has news of current Debian happenings. 
> 
> Besides news of the release of the most recent Debian 8 update, v8.3[2],
> DPN also has news of the interesting development of the integration 
> of the TAILS distro[3] installer into Debian using sid, stretch 
> or jessie-backports[4].
> 
> From the Bits for Debian announcement[5]:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Tails Installer is a graphical tool to install or upgrade Tails on a 
> USB stick from an ISO image. It aims at making it easier and faster to 
> get Tails up and running.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> This Tails Installer feature for Debian seems like a very useful way to 
> create a *somewhat* secure, USB-bootable, and Debian-based
> distro for portable use, e.g., for commuting and/or for longer-distance 
> travel. 
> (Although the question remains whether any distro including Debian and 
> TAILS can be made to be **fully/completely** "secure" ??)
> 

No, it can't.  No technology is completely secure.

I wrote this as a wish list some time ago:

http://danielpocock.com/the-gold-standard-in-free-communications-technology