Re: [tor-talk] Is Tor still valid?

[Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:41 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mirimir wrote (06 Aug 2013 05:46:37 GMT) :
>> If this exploit had included a Linux component, Tails would not have
>> protected you.
> I've not studied the attack code but this appears to be mostly
> correct.

I believe it would have had to also include a local privilege
escalation exploit and tails specific code to do the bypass.

This is basically the threat model that whonix's isolation is intended
to address, it would be good to see tails improve wrt this.
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