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This proposal welcomes suggestions, feedback, questions, and ideas of any kind.
What?
Scriptails is a set of scripts for Tails that bootstraps it with good User Experience (UX) configurations and automates cumbersome tasks that would otherwise require Linux knowledge and skills.
Human rights activists should not need to learn Linux for advocacy and Bitcoin. This project seeks to make it easier for them to leverage the security and privacy benefits of the Tails operating system for their daily activities.
Scriptails aims to provide a set of scripts for Tails hosted on an onion website which activists can download from and run on their machines. The core idea is to facilitate Tails configuration and usage, attaining a better user experience (UX) and improving a human rights activist daily experience in using the operating system for their advocacy needs.
Why?
Human rights activists should be freed from the need to learn Linux and be able to more easily leverage Tails for their advocacy and privacy requirements, included but not limited to Bitcoin.
Currently, to take full advantage of Tails for their advocacy needs, an activist most likely needs to:
Grow accustomed to GNOME, the desktop environment used in Tails, and tweak some of its aspects. Particularly, the activist might want to adjust UX settings, keyboard layouts, system settings, and others.
This assumes that the activist has already downloaded Tails and has somewhat gotten used to it, on top of learning and employing some command line work.
Ideally, however, the activist should be able to just use Amnesia and not require the use of an admin password. They would only need to paste a couple of lines into the command line or simply run a script which takes care of the hard work for them.
The script would also take care of and ensure security best practices, preventing the activist from shooting himself in the foot while seeking greater privacy.
Use Case
Joanne is a human rights activist living in an authoritarian country who raises concerns and sheds light on her home country's practices. To ensure she is able to advocate by writing and using the internet, she has to resort to using the Tails operating system for enough security and privacy. However, Tails can get quite complicated, and she often finds herself loosing too much time on adjusting configurations to facilitate usage. But after discovering Scriptails, Joanne can easily access the project's onion website over Tor in her Tails machine and download secure scripts that automate specific tasks.
Joanne downloads a secure, signed script from the Scriptails onion website to help her with keyboard configuration. She runs it on her machine, triggering a set of new configurations that resemble her Mac setup which she can use under Amnesia mode.
Similarly, Joanne downloads another signed script from the same website, now to help her customize GNOME –– Tails' desktop environment. She then runs the script from the command line interface (CLI) and it bootstraps her machine with better configuration, ultimately providing a better user experience while allowing her to keep using Tails on Amnesia mode.
Major Milestones
Scriptails can evolve to encompass a wide variety of use cases and functionalities. However, to better prepare it for such, the basics ought to be tackled. For its inception, the following are being envisioned:
2021-07-18 Research
How to customize keyboard to resemble macOS under Amnesia mode?
How to tweak GNOME settings under Amnesia mode?
2021-07-23 Write scripts that allow a human rights activist to quickly and easily customize their Tails desktop environment and enhance their user experience under Amnesia mode, including:
Tweak GNOME settings
Configure keyboard to resemble macOS
2021-08-13 Develop an onion website to host the scripts, allowing the human rights activist to privately access and download, possibly leveraging:
More functionality is planned to be tackled if time allows:
Write similar UX customization scripts as the above but for usage in Persistent mode, allowing the activist to leverage Tails' persistent storage for programmatic customization on every startup
Host these scripts on that onion website as well
Note: this functionality requires the activist to set up an admin password and configure the encrypted persistent storage
Write scripts for easily creating Bitcoin seeds and keys
Also host them on the onion website
Write scripts for exporting Bitcoin seeds and keys as SSKR QR codes
Again, make sure they're available on the website for private reference and download no
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Scriptails - scripts for Tails
This proposal welcomes suggestions, feedback, questions, and ideas of any kind.
What?
Scriptails is a set of scripts for Tails that bootstraps it with good User Experience (UX) configurations and automates cumbersome tasks that would otherwise require Linux knowledge and skills.
Human rights activists should not need to learn Linux for advocacy and Bitcoin. This project seeks to make it easier for them to leverage the security and privacy benefits of the Tails operating system for their daily activities.
Scriptails aims to provide a set of scripts for Tails hosted on an onion website which activists can download from and run on their machines. The core idea is to facilitate Tails configuration and usage, attaining a better user experience (UX) and improving a human rights activist daily experience in using the operating system for their advocacy needs.
Why?
Human rights activists should be freed from the need to learn Linux and be able to more easily leverage Tails for their advocacy and privacy requirements, included but not limited to Bitcoin.
Currently, to take full advantage of Tails for their advocacy needs, an activist most likely needs to:
This assumes that the activist has already downloaded Tails and has somewhat gotten used to it, on top of learning and employing some command line work.
Ideally, however, the activist should be able to just use Amnesia and not require the use of an admin password. They would only need to paste a couple of lines into the command line or simply run a script which takes care of the hard work for them.
The script would also take care of and ensure security best practices, preventing the activist from shooting himself in the foot while seeking greater privacy.
Use Case
Joanne is a human rights activist living in an authoritarian country who raises concerns and sheds light on her home country's practices. To ensure she is able to advocate by writing and using the internet, she has to resort to using the Tails operating system for enough security and privacy. However, Tails can get quite complicated, and she often finds herself loosing too much time on adjusting configurations to facilitate usage. But after discovering Scriptails, Joanne can easily access the project's onion website over Tor in her Tails machine and download secure scripts that automate specific tasks.
Joanne downloads a secure, signed script from the Scriptails onion website to help her with keyboard configuration. She runs it on her machine, triggering a set of new configurations that resemble her Mac setup which she can use under Amnesia mode.
Similarly, Joanne downloads another signed script from the same website, now to help her customize GNOME –– Tails' desktop environment. She then runs the script from the command line interface (CLI) and it bootstraps her machine with better configuration, ultimately providing a better user experience while allowing her to keep using Tails on Amnesia mode.
Major Milestones
Scriptails can evolve to encompass a wide variety of use cases and functionalities. However, to better prepare it for such, the basics ought to be tackled. For its inception, the following are being envisioned:
torgap-demo(by @gorazdko)did:onion,did-method-onion, suggestion by @ChristopherA so that the onion website signs the objects itselfMore functionality is planned to be tackled if time allows:
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