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posted by janrinok on Friday September 23 2016, @12:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the time-for-ACs-to-update dept.

Release 2.6 of TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tails-26-out.

TAILS is believed to be one of the most secure ways currently in use on the internet of protecting your identity, although it is possible to compromise information if it is used used incorrectly.

Their home page is https://tails.boum.org/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Friday September 23 2016, @12:06PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday September 23 2016, @12:06PM (#405496) Journal

    We discussed this last month. I wrote something incorrect about OpenBSD and didn't bother to post a correction.

    https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=14828&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=improvedthreaded&cid=383634#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

    Anyway, OpenBSD doesn't, in my estimation, attain the standard the OP wants upheld in regard to "binary blobs." There are operating systems that do, Trisquel for example. As I mentioned last month, I don't know of other operating systems besides Tails that have an emphasis on anonymity. One would be left to one's own devices in configuring a general-purpose operating system for anonymity. That could be prone to error.

    The "hardware that [has] been compromised by design" that AC #383634 mentioned is commonplace. Malicious firmware can be permanently burned in a ROM. It doesn't have to be loadable from a "binary blob." Both situations ought to be addressed if one wants open, auditable, trustworthy hardware.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday September 23 2016, @12:30PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 23 2016, @12:30PM (#405500) Journal

    Agreed. I'm not sure you realise that I was replying to the OP, not to your post. However, he might have a specially configured version of, say, OpenBSD which is using TOR at all times and from which he has stripped all closed source drivers. Maybe, .... or maybe not. Like you, I suspect that he has nothing better to offer. If he has then I would like to try it.

    I have tried Trisquel but I didn't like it very much. Nothing wrong with it but my way of working and it did not get along.

    • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Friday September 23 2016, @11:49PM

      by butthurt (6141) on Friday September 23 2016, @11:49PM (#405768) Journal

      I didn't think you were replying to my post. I mainly wanted to inform you that exactly the same concern had been raised and discussed before.