Wenn Sie nicht vertrauenswürdige Dokumente erhalten, zum Beispiel E-Mail-Anhänge, ermöglicht Ihnen Dangerzone, diese in sichere PDFs umzuwandeln, bevor Sie sie öffnen.

Dangerzone ist besonders nützlich für Journalisten, die möglicherweise gefährliche Dokumente von anonymen Quellen erhalten oder aus dem Internet herunterladen.

Dangerzone wurde von der Freedom of the Press Foundation entwickelt, einer gemeinnützigen Organisation, die den Journalismus im öffentlichen Interesse schützt. Edward Snowden und Laura Poitras sind Mitglieder des Vorstands.

You can install Dangerzone in TelestaiCB using the Additional Software feature.

We are not including Dangerzone in TelestaiCB only because it would be too big (over 1 GB), but we highly recommend it.

Learn more about how Dangerzone works.

Supported formats

Dangerzone works on many file formats, including:

  • PDFs

  • Microsoft Office documents, such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx

  • LibreOffice documents, such as .odt and .ods

  • Images, such as .jpg, .gif, .svg, .tiff, and .png

  • EPUB ebooks

Differences between Dangerzone and Metadata Cleaner

TelestaiCB also includes Metadata Cleaner to clean files, but the use cases for Dangerzone and Metadata Cleaner are very different.

Wir empfehlen Ihnen, Folgendes zu verwenden:

  • Metadata Cleaner to remove metadata from your files before you publish or share them.

  • Dangerzone to sanitize untrusted documents shared with you by others.

DangerzoneMetadata Cleaner
Safe to use onOther people's filesYour files only
Clean audio and video filesNoYes
Remove malware and trackersYesNo
Remove visual metadata and fingerprints ¹NoNo
Allow selecting text in generated PDFsYesNo
SpeedSlowerFaster
Included in TelestaiCB by defaultNoYes
  1. For example printer tracking dots, printing imperfections, or intentional misspellings

System requirements

Dangerzone requires a lot of memory in the computer and space in your Persistent Storage because it relies on software containers to manipulate dangerous files securely.

To install Dangerzone, you need at least:

  • 8 GB of RAM

  • 12 GB available in the Persistent Storage

Installing Dangerzone

To install Dangerzone as additional software in TelestaiCB, you have to:

  1. Configure the Dangerzone APT repository

  2. Install the Dangerzone package

  3. Convert a test document

Configure the Dangerzone APT repository

  1. Beim Starten von TelestaiCB richten Sie ein Administrationspasswort ein.

  2. Choose Applications ▸ Persistent Storage to open the Persistent Storage settings.

    Create a Persistent Storage if you don't have one already.

    Make sure that the Additional Software feature is enabled.

    Close the Persistent Storage settings.

  3. Choose Applications ▸ Utilities ▸ Terminal to open a terminal without administration rights.

  4. Execute the following command to open the configuration of your Persistent Storage in the Text Editor with administration rights.

    gnome-text-editor admin:///live/persistence/TelestaiCBData_unlocked/persistence.conf
    

    Add the following line to store the configuration of third-party APT repositories in your Persistent Storage.

    /etc/apt/sources.list.d  source=apt/sources,link
    

    Add the following line to store Podman containers in your Persistent Storage. Podman is the containerization technology used by Dangerzone.

    /home/amnesia/.local/share/containers    source=podman
    

    Save your changes and close the Text Editor.

  5. Choose Applications ▸ System Tools ▸ Root Terminal to open a terminal with administration rights.

  6. Execute the following commands to configure the Dangerzone repository as additional APT repository.

    mkdir /live/persistence/TelestaiCBData_unlocked/apt/sources

    ln -s /usr/share/telestaicb/apt/dangerzone.sources /live/persistence/TelestaiCBData_unlocked/apt/sources/

    We include this sources file in TelestaiCB for convenience, but installing Dangerzone relies on the APT repository hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation. As a consequence:

    • You need to trust the packages from this repository not to break the security of your TelestaiCB.
    • Dangerzone might stop working in TelestaiCB outside of the control of the TelestaiCB team.
  7. Restart TelestaiCB.

Install the Dangerzone package

  1. Beim Starten von TelestaiCB richten Sie ein Administrationspasswort ein.

  2. Connect to the Tor network.

  3. Choose Applications ▸ System Tools ▸ Root Terminal to open a terminal with administration rights.

  4. Execute the following commands to install the dangerzone package and its dependencies.

    apt update

    apt install dangerzone fuse-overlayfs uidmap

  5. After the packages are installed, a notification appears to ask if you want to install dangerzone, fuse-overlayfs, and uidmap every time you start TelestaiCB in the future.

    Choose to Install Every Time.

  6. Close the Root Terminal.

Convert a test document

  1. Choose Applications ▸ Office ▸ Dangerzone to start Dangerzone.

    When started for the first time, Dangerzone installs its container.

    This operation can take several minutes.

    After the setup finishes, a button appears to Select suspicious documents.

  2. Select a simple document to test the conversion process, like an empty LibreOffice document or an image.

    Converting this first document can also take several minutes. After this first document, converting other documents will be faster.

    If converting fails with the error Unknown error code '125', restart TelestaiCB and try again.

    Dangerzone needs a lot of available RAM when running for the first time. Restarting TelestaiCB frees as much RAM as possible.

    Dangerzone requires at least 8 GB of RAM to install.

  3. After the conversion finishes, the original document is moved to a new unsafe folder and the name of the safe document that has been created includes safe. For example:

    ├── document-safe.odt
    └── unsafe
        └── document.odt