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The Tails project announced the release of version 2.12 of the operating system which focuses on "privacy and anonymity."
The new version includes Gnome Sound Recorder, removes I2P, runs on version 4.9.13 of the Linux kernel, and as per usual remedies "numerous security holes" in the previous release. Distro Watch has additional coverage.
Related story:
TAILS 2.11: The Last Release to Support the I2P Anonymizing Network
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:19PM (10 children)
What about the (confirmed from CIA leaks) security hole known as "systemd"?
Oh mention that and you get banned from their IRC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:21PM
I get banned from IRC for mentioning I use xrdp because "it's not Linux enough."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:25PM (2 children)
There were two separate projects to either get in i2pd (c++ variant) or update the java i2p (same that has been in since pre-Snowden) both of which got shot down by the Tails project managers.
At this point there have been discussions about instead creating a new darknet 'tails-like' distro to both replace it and provide both Tor and I2P network support without reliance on a probably compromised 'privacy' distribution.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)
> [...] two separate projects [...] got shot down [...]
Where may we can read more about this?
> [...] a new darknet 'tails-like' distro [...]
A good starting point may be Whonix running within Qubes OS. You'd need to integrate I2P.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/whonix/ [qubes-os.org]
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday April 21 2017, @05:37AM
Found an e-mail thread saying the was concern about undiscovered 0-days in the I2p software. Not entirely clear why I2P would get singled out though.
[Tails-dev] What to do about I2P in Tails? [boum.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:25PM (5 children)
Would love a source on that.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:04PM (4 children)
In my brief searching, it looks like all of the publicly-available information is speculation.
I guess systemd is so bad [agwa.name] that people are wondering if it is malice, rather than incompetence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @02:37AM (3 children)
Given the rapid scope creep and the rapid widespread adoption that is exactly what it seems like. Seems like a massively successful campaign, it won over the majority of users who don't see a problem. The lies about modularity (technically possible but practically not) and just about every weird core system replacement just scream takeover. I do hope I'm wrong, but for now I'm gonna do my best to avoid it.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday April 21 2017, @02:52AM (2 children)
Even more creepy is Firefox requiring PulseAudio [mozilla.org] starting with version 52. Pulseaudio of course pulls in systemd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @05:28AM
On one hand it is creepy, on another hand Linux suffers from a fractured ecosystem that makes it hard for software to support. Firefox made a decision to bake DRM into their browser to support businesses like Netflix etc. who rely on securing content. So, is it all about making life easier for developers which incidentally makes it easier to compromise systems? Etc. etc. It is a tangled web (haha) and I sure wish we had some clarity.
Ah well, I'll stick to my soap box and the marginal efforts to avoid the worst of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @10:11AM
That "accidentally" is created by Poettered too.. just as that other CIA trojan called system'd according to the latest wiki something with holes ;)
Maybe it's just so that if( any_stuff == Poettered ) { printf("You are compromised!\n"); }
Which means Red Hat is also in the sphere of influence.
And guess what.. the Chairman of Red Hat is a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Bingo!
And for Google..
Google is owned by Alphabet Inc.
That is chaired by Eric Schmidt since 2011.
United States Secretary of Defense appointed Schmidt as DoD Innovation Advisory Board in 2016.
And Schmidt has invested in The Groundwork and Timshel which in turn is associated with Hillary Clinton.
Bingo!
Accidentally NIST happens to get their elliptic curve wrong in 2004, hmm!
See any trend here?