I am not sure sdwdate-gui would be a strong enough notification if networking was actually blocked if sdwdate did not succeed yet.
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Aug 13 2020
Shipping kloak in Whonix stable for a few releases already.
Aug 12 2020
After running a bunch of tcp ping tests, the conclusion is this attack
is not really effective against TCP like ICMP. The latency is much lower
for TCP pings and though it slightly decreases with cpu stress it is not
consistent. Reloading pages in TBB with cpu stress
on/off does not impact latency readings while doing so with tc
attached has massive latency foot prints - implying it will ironically make such attacks much easier in addition to degrading performance.
Aug 7 2020
Cyrus recommends adding delays per packet to disrupt inter-packet patterns that remain. The command can be fine tuned as such:
Aug 1 2020
The good news is I think I've figured out the equivalent tc-netem command looking the slot parameter in the manual:
May 30 2020
Ticket above closed and convo moved to tails-dev.
Mar 22 2020
Mar 21 2020
Jan 7 2020
An interesting product that triggers a system wipe if the cable is pulled:
Dec 24 2019
Any attempted access of /boot would be logged the same way anyway although it might be good to use that to stop it from showing up in aa-logprof.
Would an audit denyrule for /boot be useful for the sake of audit?
/boot isn't allowed in init-systemd anyway so we don't need to add it to dangerous-files. Apparmor denies access to files that aren't explicitly allowed. The only reason we need to blacklist /lib/modules and not /boot is because we give access to all libraries.
Still need to add /boot to https://github.com/Whonix/apparmor-profile-everything/blob/master/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/dangerous-files? Currently cannot find it there.
Dec 23 2019
/boot/ is already unreadable.
Dec 7 2019
Dec 5 2019
Nov 25 2019
Nov 16 2019
Nov 6 2019
This was done. If not, please create specific tickets where it isn't done.
Oct 15 2019
Oct 13 2019
Analysis by Cyrus cited here for completion:
Oct 7 2019
An alternative proposal for editing ISNs without involving the kernel:
Oct 6 2019
Implemented for some time now.
Reported build failures:
When an implementation is decided, let's decide if we can include this in security-misc for use on Linux hosts and Kicksecure. We would need some way in detecting the active NIC since on wireless systems wlan0 is the interface of choice and not eth0
tc-netem is a utility that is part of the iproute2 package in Debian. It leverages functionality already built into Linux and userspace utilities to simulate networks including packet delays and loss.
Apr 23 2019
Apr 6 2019
Apr 5 2019
In T543#18086, @HulaHoop wrote:@Patrick What is the status of integration?
@Patrick What is the status of integration? Since we have kloak this is also a great defense to have. There is a script on there for packing as a deb:
Mar 28 2019
release kloak v0.2
Mar 1 2019
Many code enhancements were recently added by its author.
Feb 15 2019
To build a package with qubes-builder, you need to add Makefile.builder file with just one line: DEBIAN_BUILD_DIRS := debian. This will tell qubes-builder that given repository contains Debian package.
Alternatively, if that would be too much of a problem, it should be easy to add an option that do auto detection (probably just looks for debian directory).
Feb 14 2019
Jan 23 2019
Jan 22 2019
With TPO infrastructure using onions, its now a good idea to switch tb-updater to check for version info and downloads to these more secure mirrors.
Dec 9 2018
Dec 7 2018
Nov 20 2018
Oct 13 2018
We can now grab the browser tarball from the TPO onion instead which makes this ticket obsolete. Close if you concur.
Oct 1 2018
Sep 20 2018
Sep 6 2018
This should be fixed by default in the next build.
linking to forum:
Aug 15 2018
Aug 10 2018
He was busy those past few months and thought there was no interest. @Patrick Expect a new release this coming week.
Aug 9 2018
Aug 8 2018
Why not ping him first? Its a waste of good work otherwise.
Dead upstream.