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After nearly five years of development, Tails, a Debian-based distribution known for its strong privacy features and pre-configured for anonymous web browsing, has reached version 1.0.
The announcement from Distrowatch.com:
Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.0, is out. Version 1.0 is often an important milestone that denotes the maturity of a free software project. The first public version of what would become Tails was released on June 23 2009, when it was called Amnesia. That was almost five years ago. Tails 1.0 marks the 36th stable release since then. Since then we have been working on the many features we think are essential both in terms of security and usability: USB installer; automatic upgrades; persistence; support for Tor bridges and other special Tor configuration; MAC address spoofing; extensive and translated documentation.
Read the rest of the release announcement for a full changelog and a note on future plans.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SlimmPickens on Friday May 02 2014, @01:57AM
I have been wondering for a while now if it's possible the NSA could have comprised Debian's keys. One of the features of this Tails is that the ISO itself is crytographically signed by a number of Debian maintainers. That Snowden chose to use this Tails is obviously a very good sign that Debian is not compromised. I think I'm going to start using Tails lot more, especially when I'm creating new networks.