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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 17 2015, @12:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the tails-I-win-heads-you-lose dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @09:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @09:37PM (#277917)

    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.