On 10/12/2018 11:56 PM, grarpamp wrote:
This is the use case for Tails. . . . [T]here are no writes to storage, unless users configure [otherwise] . . . .
Sure, but this isn't a _Tor_ issue. It's just about Tor browser, which is just (heavily) modified Firefox. And although I'm no software expert, I'm guessing that it's impossible to guarantee what some code will or won't leave behind when it crashes. Even if you tweaked the browser to never write temp files to disk, and keep everything in RAM, you couldn't guarantee that the OS won't write stuff to disk.
That is, unless there _is_ no disk, as in Tails. Even with Whonix, traces likely remain in the virtual disk.
There is never "no" disk, just a matter of which ones are plugged into the box, physically, or remotely.
OK, I should have said "unless there _is_ no disk, as there _can be_ in Tails". I've run Tails (and my own LiveCDs) on diskless machines. And yes, using USB for live systems is iffy. But write-once CDs are pretty safe, I think. No? <SNIP>