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posted by martyb on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the choose-your-headphones-wisely dept.

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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:25PM (#497072)

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday April 21 2017, @12:29AM (#497140) Journal

    > [...] 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

      by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday April 21 2017, @05:37AM (#497255)

      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]

      So, the main goals I have in mind are:

        1. making it harder, for an attacker who compromises I2P running in
              Tails, to upgrade their attack to anything non-I2P;

        2. making it harder, for someone attacking a Tails user's web
              browsing over Tor, to take advantage of bugs in the I2P router
              console;

        3. protecting the Tails users who don't intend to use I2P at all,
              from vulnerabilities in I2P, by making it harder, for an attacker,
              to start I2P in Tails, or to trick a user into doing it.