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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: 3, Informative) by K_benzoate on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:47PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Wednesday February 25 2015, @07:47PM (#149653)

    You're all being tracked now (if you weren't already). Just reading about Tails [daserste.ndr.de] or Tor is considered suspicious enough to elevate your surveillance level.

    Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search. Not only are German privacy software users tracked, but the source code shows that privacy software users worldwide are tracked by the NSA.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @08:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @08:47PM (#149682)

    Just watching the wrong video on youtube.. ordering the wrong book from amazon... probably even reading this website! At some point it hardly matters anymore.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @10:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25 2015, @10:00PM (#149728)

      "Just watching the wrong video on youtube.. ordering the wrong book from amazon... probably even reading this website! At some point it hardly matters anymore."

      mod this up

      if "THEY" want to stop Tor/TAILS development, they can. Until then...