Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.3, is out. Among the new features are:
- Electrum is an easy to use bitcoin wallet. You can use the Bitcoin Client persistence feature to store your Electrum configuration and wallet.
- The Tor Browser has additional operating system and data security. This security restricts reads and writes to a limited number of folders. Learn how to manipulate files with the new Tor Browser.
- The obfs4 pluggable transport is now available to connect to Tor bridges. Pluggable transports transform the Tor traffic between the client and the bridge to help disguise Tor traffic from censors.
- Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using OpenPGP and Git from the command line.
One issue that the Tails team note specifically is that this release ships with NoScript version 2.6.9.14 instead of version 2.6.9.15, which is the version used in The Tor Project's own Tor Browser 4.0.4 release. Other issues can be found here.
The download page is here and the submitter reminds us all that, if we choose the BitTorrent download option, please seed afterwards to help other potential users to obtain a copy.
The security holes which affect Version 1.2.3 have been fixed.
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(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday February 25 2015, @03:00PM
The web page at https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html [boum.org] might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error code: ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED
Looks like my work doesn't like it
Category: Anonymizers
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday February 25 2015, @03:23PM
It's working now for me. Maybe we soyled it briefly :).
Still always moving
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @08:42PM
Can't download it from home apparently.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @03:37PM
Tails comes with the vanilla Linux and all the firmware without source it contains.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=blob;f=firmware/WHENCE;hb=HEAD [kernel.org]
Given the popularity of Linux, that would make a very nice spot for hiding nasties.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @09:56PM
I have a few concerns, one is the microcode which is loaded with every boot for AMD or Intel.
A lot of people are using this distro, but how many eyes are auditing it?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Covalent on Wednesday February 25 2015, @04:49PM
If only the few who "need" it actually use it, then anyone using it becomes an immediate suspect.
What is needed is a push to make online security trendy and cool. Perhaps a pink ribbon or a Mothers Against Open Browsing or a celebrity endorsement (Look what Jenny McCarthy did for the anti-vaxxers!)
I read recently (I think it was here) that ANYONE running Tor was automatically added to some government list. If everyone is on the list, then no one is on the list.
I leave it in your capable hands, Legion of Nerds. :)
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by SlimmPickens on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:40PM
I think it is happening, Snowden made encryption cool. Every tech site and probably computer magazine covers Tails and Tor. Nerds are encrypting everything they can. Intel has hardware encryption in atom boards right through to xeons and reference hardware to allow people to build whitebox switches.
It's going to take a while for everyone to read up and get their heads around four way handshakes and openflow, and then go on to build networks that actually utilize it.
Kudos for continuing to push!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @05:14PM
Tails turns you into a girl as chelsey manning will tell you ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:14PM
If you are using Tor, be sure to disable Javascript in Firefox or whatever. It is the most common avenue for exploits. Tails might be somewhat protected against this, but it's a good idea nonetheless.
(Score: 1) by Steve Hamlin on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:53PM
That's what the NoScript plugin does - it restricts JS execution within Firefox, with the ability to whitelist domains if you need to use JS on or from a particular domain for some reason.
(Score: 3, Informative) by K_benzoate on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:47PM
You're all being tracked now (if you weren't already). Just reading about Tails [daserste.ndr.de] or Tor is considered suspicious enough to elevate your surveillance level.
Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search. Not only are German privacy software users tracked, but the source code shows that privacy software users worldwide are tracked by the NSA.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @08:47PM
Just watching the wrong video on youtube.. ordering the wrong book from amazon... probably even reading this website! At some point it hardly matters anymore.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @10:00PM
"Just watching the wrong video on youtube.. ordering the wrong book from amazon... probably even reading this website! At some point it hardly matters anymore."
mod this up
if "THEY" want to stop Tor/TAILS development, they can. Until then...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26 2015, @12:40AM
Snowden's favourite Linux - Tails - rushes sec-fix version to market
25 Feb 2015 at 05:02, Richard Chirgwin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/25/tails_project_rushes_secfix_version_to_market/ [theregister.co.uk]
"Tails, the secure live-boot Linux made famous by Edward Snowden, has had a major revision release to Version 1.3.
The new version, released after testing since February 12, combines various security fixes with new apps and simplified install, the developers say.
The developers want to kill off the previous version, Tails 1.2.3, as soon as possible, with a list of 14 security issues covering everything from the Tor browser and its network security services (NSS) through to a sudo privilege escalation bug.
The new version of the Tor browser restricts reads and writes to a limited number of folders, and to help manage passwords, Tails 1.2.3 includes the Keyringer command line utility.
To make manual installation easier, the Mac and Linux installs no longer need isohybrid command support, and Tails now bundles GnuPG 2, which improves its support for OpenPGP smartcards.
Other major security fixes in Tails 1.3 include fixes to xdg-utils, the Jasper JPEG-2000 image manipulation library, a fix for the underlying Debian glibc implementation (eglibc), Open JDK, Unzip, the krb5 Kerberos library, Ruby 1.9.1, xorg-server, Libre Office, dbus, Bind 9, and the e2fsprogs file system utilities. ®"
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