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Tails Linux 2.5 is Out

posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 03 2016, @03:53PM   
from the AC's-dream dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Tails Linux 2.5 is out (Aug 2, 2016).

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.

It 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

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.5/index.en.html
https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/760516381905448968
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/amnesia-news/2016-August/000110.html
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/760516806587117568

[Continues...]

Useful links:

- Download / Burning Tails on a DVD: (See also: "Direct Downloads")
https://tails.boum.org/install/dvd/index.en.html

- Download and verify using OpenPGP:
https://tails.boum.org/install/download/openpgp/index.en.html

- Download / and verify the Tails ISO image (#2):
https://tails.boum.org/install/download/

- Numerous security holes in Tails 2.4:
https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_2.4/index.en.html

- About:
https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html

- News:
https://tails.boum.org/news/index.en.html

- Getting Started:
https://tails.boum.org/getting_started/index.en.html

- First steps with Tails:
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/index.en.html

- Documentation:
https://tails.boum.org/doc/index.en.html

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Original Submission

• Tails 1.4.1 - last uncompromized version ...!!?? Tails 1.4.1 - last uncompromized version ...!!?? (Score: 2) by number6 on Wednesday August 03 2016, @09:51PM

  by number6 (1831) on Wednesday August 03 2016, @09:51PM (#383785) Journal

  I am posting the below links purely as food for thought and further discussion;

   

  I have never used Tails and do not offer any proof about the statement highlighted in bold . . .

   

  Search : "Tails 1.4.1 compromized CIA" -- DuckDuckGo (no-JS light version)    [duckduckgo.com]

  <https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=Tails%201.4.1%20compromized%20CIA&kl=wt-wt&k5=-1&kh=1&kae=t&kp=-1&kz=-1&kc=-1&kn=1&kv=1&ks=m&kw=s&kt=v&ka=v&kaf=1&kf=-1&kac=-1>

   

  Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains and Arrest Owner In Poland -- Slashdot (see comment #52551561)    [slashdot.org]

  <https://slashdot.org/story/16/07/21/0018216/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-and-arrest-owner-in-poland>

  They did it because it hosted the only version of uncompromised Tails. ...............<https://www.sendspace.com/file/w35ddl> Here is the actual real sig and real SHA and real torrent that had been hosted on kat.cr. It is in that 7z. Unzip it with peazip or whatever you want. That torrent was placed on kat.cr by some place called TNTVILLAGE or something like that. It is a very high traffic forum I think it was in Spanish. The .iso of Tails is multilanguage. Nothing different from the original. It's sig and SHA matched the ones from the originally downloaded one I have from when 1.4.1 was distributed originally. It is the only place i've seen it hosted so get this and share it. ...............The government doesn't give a fuck if you watch a movie or listen to TV unless they are paid to care. They aren't. It was because that version of Tails is Ed Snowden's. After that, the CIA fucked it up.

   

  Download Torrent : "Tails 1.4.1 i386 ISO MultiLang [TNTVillage]" -- Kickass Torrents mirror    [dx-torrent.com]

  <https://dx-torrent.com/tails-1-4-1-i386-iso-multilang-tntvillage-t10922671.html#comment>

  <magnet:?xt=urn:btih:38F33EFA715EFB770BADDFFE26059FF422FC0A27&dn=tails+1+4+1+i386+iso+multilang+tntvillage&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce>

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• Re:Tails 1.4.1 - last uncompromized version ...!!? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:27PM (#384212)

  Using old software with (presumably) known, unfixed vulnerabilities is generally not a defense against crackers.

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