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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
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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
(Score: 3, Interesting) by melikamp on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:29AM
Absolutely, there is often a room for compromise, and additional layers of security are not a waste, even in the face of total insecurity elsewhere. But what drives me bananas about projects like Tails (serving blobs) or Tor (serving a Windoze client) is their refusal to even acknowledge this is terrible. All they have to do is write on their website with big red letters:
The Windows client is provided, but it's next to useless, since Windows rats out your every move.
The default Linux kernel is probably compromized, please use Linux-libre kernel if your hardware supports it. (Incidentally, Tails does not support Linux-libre, even though it would be trivial for a project that big.)
They are not even selling a product, they got nothing to lose except committed non-free software users who already gave up their privacy anyway. But when I talked to either team, I was more or less stonewalled: none of this seems to concern them. Unless they really are oblivious to these issues, they must know their product has terrible deficiencies, but they will not admit it to their users.