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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @06:48PM
Your suggestion to not use Tails is discouraging, as it is the premier anonymous OS out there. Once everyone knows data can be persisted, owners of Tails installs will be tortured until they provide those persisted volumes once thugs get ahold of them, even if those persisted volumes don't exist. Because the option exists. Just because they claim they didn't use it, and the thugs can't find it, won't convince them otherwise. If the option never existed and wasn't possible, people would be tortured less. It should be removed. If people want to reduce their security of this magnitude for convenience, they should not be using Tails, yet there is simply no other OS that approaches its security. Tails should be forked, but sadly that would detract resources from core Tails work.