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: 1) by SuggestiveLanguage on Friday May 02 2014, @01:28PM
May I kindly suggest a middle-ground? Include a pessimistic option for persistence/statefulness, however, a stern warning is posted and a mechanism is provided to flush persistent/stateful data as quickly and seamlessly as possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @06:51PM
There is no middle ground when you're discussing a security project of this nature, and a feature that degrades security to this extent. People's lives literally depend on the security of this OS. Once the option exists, whether anyone uses it or not, anyone holding a Tails install is putting their lives in danger, because they will be tortured until that persisted volume is opened, whether it exists or not.