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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 11 2017, @02:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the shedding-another-feature dept.

TAILS, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a privacy-centric Linux distro based on Debian.

Softpedia reports

Tails 2.11 [will] be the last [version] to ship with the I2P anonymizing network software. I2P 0.9.25 is included in Tails 2.11, and it's already a very old version. The decision was made because the Tails team don't have the time to maintain I2P in their distribution.

[...] Two new features have been added in today's Tails 2.11 release, namely a notification to inform users that the upcoming Tails 3.0 Live CD won't start on a very old computer with a 32-bit processor, as well as another notification which will warn you that the I2P software will be removed in the next version, Tails 2.12.

Tails 2.11 also comes with the Tor Browser 6.5.1 anonymous web browser, and includes a bunch of security fixes for the infamous local root privilege escalation (CVE-2017-6074) by disabling the dccp module. Additionally, Linux kernel 4.8.15 was installed to prevent the GNOME desktop environment from freezing on Intel GM965/GL960 GPUs.

[It also] addresses an issue with the Tor Browser that did not display the offline warning when attempting to open the local documentation of Tails, as well as a rare problem that caused automatic upgrades to be applied incorrectly.

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  • (Score: 1) by MilanorTSW on Saturday March 11 2017, @02:37PM (2 children)

    by MilanorTSW (3072) on Saturday March 11 2017, @02:37PM (#477750)
    I2PD [github.com] is definitely picking up pace and is both more effective and easier to deploy.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:38PM (#477818)

    i2pd is majority russian developed, one of the major-feature secondary developers has been spouting Pro-Trump and Anti-Privacy views.

    Plus they just implemented FSB reference encryption post i2pd-2.12 (no relation to the Tails version!).

    I still had a node in operation, since i2p-router has its own development woes (lack of features, Pro-PC developers and a Code of Conduct, plus every current major developer having doxxed themselves to lend the project 'credibility', most of whom are North American.)

    Both are still better than Tor at this point in time, but all three projects are giving cause for concern in regards to their long term security, stability, reliability, and ability to help anonymize one against nation-state adversaries, none of the three have the nodecounts to do more than get you flagged for enhanced surveillance. I2P has 30-60k unique nodes active. Tor has up to a claimed million, but only about 4000 outproxies. Alternative networks to these three are either research projects or have known issues with metadata and other leaking issues which could uniquely identify your routes through the network.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @11:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @11:50PM (#477887)

      For those of you who wonder at what all this means, please read the Gulag Archipelago - even if it's only the first chapter.