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Tails 1.3 is Released

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 25 2015, @02:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-know-it-makes-sense dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:14PM (#149641)

    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

    by Steve Hamlin (5033) on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:53PM (#149655)

    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.