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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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The wages of sin are unreported.
(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!