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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 20 2016, @11:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the stay-secure dept.

Tails version 2.7 has been released: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.7/index.en.html
- Download: https://tails.boum.org/install/download/openpgp/index.en.html

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:

  • use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
  • all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
  • leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
  • use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

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

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @12:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @12:44PM (#430472)

    Sites like Slashdot and OSNews fail to publish news about new Tails releases.

    Slashdot often post updates about other distributions, even Ubuntu BETA releases and BSD releases but nothing on Tails Linux. The only time they seem to post about anything related whatsoever is when there is negative news about Tor for some reason. Now this can be very good at times but there is no reason to give the stink eye on new Tails releases.

    OSNews has received many submissions of Tails Linux updates, but probably shit-cans each submission as they never reach the front page. IMO, like Slashdot, they will often post minor news about some stupid shit like what is Microsoft doing today? What unheard of distribution, whether or not it's Linux, which you may never hear about again is moving chairs? But nothing of Tails Linux.

    I'm sure there are many sites like these which refuse to even entertain Tails Linux news. Maybe some are afraid they might be considered extremists [archive.org]? Which everyone who knows how to use vi might be called anyway. If you do more than click on desktop icons to launch proprietary [wikipedia.org] games [archive.org], you must be extreme!

    It's not like Tails tries hard to advertise. Most of the work is done by users who appreciate the distro. Tails has active but somewhat quiet mailing lists, no official forum, an IRC presence, and I've never read about one of their developers actually submitting release news. Even Distrowatch, which tracks Tails releases, has come up on the Tails Mailing Lists about how new update information is being received, as DW will often post about a new Tails release a day or two prior to the actual announcements on Tails/Tor official sites.

    Tails is a powerful distribution which beats using The Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) on Linux distro A,B,C, because it's not just some distro which includes Tor and/or TBB, or allows for the install of, it's designed for the use of Tor and using programs through Tor. It's so much more but you'll only appreciate it once you use it.

    So thank you SN, for being brave!

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