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In 2019, we are especially proud of celebrating with you the 10 years of Tails.
The first release of Tails, back then amnesia, was announced in 2009. Since then we released 98 versions of Tails, which were used more than 25 million times.
Tails is a Linux distribution. It has drawn upon several distributions that came before it including: Knoppix, ELE, Anonym.OS, Incognito, and Amnesia. It includes a full set of applications that are pre-configured to go through Tor.
Basically, if you want to use the internet and are looking for a distribution that leaves as little of a trace as possible of where you are going and where you came from, Tails would be an excellent choice. If you are looking for a recommendation, it was used by: Edward Snowden and journalists Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, and Micah Lee for the discussion, preparation, and distribution of the leaked NSA documents.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Monday December 16 2019, @09:46PM (3 children)
"It was used by: Edward Snowden"
Yes mean the guy on the run in Russia and held at the behest of the Russian government?
What an endorsement.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Bot on Monday December 16 2019, @10:08PM (1 child)
the guy who proved conspiracy theorists quite right? my hero.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @02:00AM
Bad BOT...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday December 16 2019, @11:18PM
As I said above, TAILS would not have helped Snowden stay anonymous. The leak was too big and the NSA/FBI would have nabbed him eventually.
Russia is near the top of the list of countries I would flee to if I pissed off the U.S. government. No extradition treaty, typically antagonistic to the U.S., no chance of extraordinary rendition by the CIA. Very few English speakers [wikipedia.org] though.
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