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/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by melikamp on Friday September 23 2016, @02:59PM
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday September 23 2016, @11:36PM
> Because distributing spyware is legal [...]
In what country is it legal to do so without informed consent?
Attempting or gaining access to someone's computer without their consent or knowledge is criminally illegal according to computer crime laws, such as the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the United Kingdom's Computer Misuse Act.
--http://www.spamlaws.com/spyware-laws.html
> Everyone is doing it: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and every app maker.
You seem to have changed the subject to spyware in general, including software that is installed with informed consent.
The concern you initially raised was about loadable firmware in the Linux kernel, as used in Tails, spying upon people without their consent. Certainly it's possible, but do you know of even one example of that?