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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)
For those that are not familiar, Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. Tt is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the computer's original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.
Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc.
Some helpful links on the Tails site:
Tials Homepage
Tails version 1.8 abbreviated changelog
Tails Security Holes in version 1.7
Tails Downloads
Tails on Twitter
Tails version 1.8 complete changelog
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:32PM
MD5 sum: 5b81e3ad169e7239b1b2553f2ba2914f tails-i386-1.8.iso
SHA256sum: beff226d2c52ba61d25053034c8d33ae0c537bf4ea47e20f63cdae006978c497 tails-i386-1.8.iso
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:54PM
Of course anyone trusting the checksums posted as comment on a discussion site by a pseudonymous user isn't truly paranoid.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:19PM
Just because you are paranoid, does not mean they are not following you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:02PM
If they were coming after you, you'd be paranoid, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:21PM
as opposed to the gpg signature provided on the website? dumbass
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:30PM
You can't trust the gpg because it's been cracked by the US department of homeland homeland.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:56PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:03PM
except is the original data was replaced with a backdoor'ed one. then everyone is helping to propagate that 'this one is a good one' even though it isn't
I only trust the GPG sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @09:12PM
if you just download the torrent and the hashing and checksummage will be handled by the torrent client.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @09:37PM
A suitably able adversary could deliver a previously prepared copy of the site the the checksum changed, but there's no way they've feasibly prepared a false copy of this page in advance.
Sure they could do DPI and sed the real checksum out for their one, but that's a lot harder to actually do than delivering a few false pages.
Think this is just paranoid or infeasible? They did it to Belgacom and OPEC, I'd say that Tails is a high-enough value target to be worth the trouble.