
An evil Penguin grabs the persistence partition’s key of a friend’s Tails operating system
(How to get a Tails LUKS master key) I have recenty set up a Tails live operating system with a LUKS-encrypted data persistence partition, and used it for a while, noticing that Tails insists on a FAT filesytem for all its system files, kernel, initrd and filesystem.squashfs. Actually, I was thus very curious about how developers managed to protect their security-focused operating system from system files’ modifications – FAT means “easily writeable” to me. The partitioning structure of my USB key follows: Disk /dev/sdc: 59.8 GiB, 64160400896 bytes, 125313283 sectors... Read more