[tor-talk] Fwd: SecureDrop, new whistleblower submission system

Micah Lee micah at micahflee.com
Thu Oct 31 22:24:13 UTC 2013


On 10/31/2013 01:45 PM, mick wrote:
> Could you not run tails in a VM using virtualbox on the Macs?
> 
> (I ask because I have no experience of virtualbox on a Mac. I only run
> Linux. Tails runs fine on a VM hosted on linux so I see no reason
> why it could not run on a VM hosted on OSX.)
> 
> (OT I know, and more appropriate for a tails list)

With SecureDrop, the viewing station requires Tails with persistent
storage, and you can only use persistent storage if you boot off of a
USB stick. (I haven't tried it yet, but you could probably get Tails
running in a VirtualBox with persistent storage as long as you're
booting the VM off of a real physical USB stick.)

SecureDrop also depends on hidden services. To see a good overview of
how the hidden services and Tails end up working in practice, see:
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/blob/master/docs/user_manual.md

-- 
Micah Lee
@micahflee

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