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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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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26 2015, @12:40AM
Snowden's favourite Linux - Tails - rushes sec-fix version to market
25 Feb 2015 at 05:02, Richard Chirgwin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/25/tails_project_rushes_secfix_version_to_market/ [theregister.co.uk]
"Tails, the secure live-boot Linux made famous by Edward Snowden, has had a major revision release to Version 1.3.
The new version, released after testing since February 12, combines various security fixes with new apps and simplified install, the developers say.
The developers want to kill off the previous version, Tails 1.2.3, as soon as possible, with a list of 14 security issues covering everything from the Tor browser and its network security services (NSS) through to a sudo privilege escalation bug.
The new version of the Tor browser restricts reads and writes to a limited number of folders, and to help manage passwords, Tails 1.2.3 includes the Keyringer command line utility.
To make manual installation easier, the Mac and Linux installs no longer need isohybrid command support, and Tails now bundles GnuPG 2, which improves its support for OpenPGP smartcards.
Other major security fixes in Tails 1.3 include fixes to xdg-utils, the Jasper JPEG-2000 image manipulation library, a fix for the underlying Debian glibc implementation (eglibc), Open JDK, Unzip, the krb5 Kerberos library, Ruby 1.9.1, xorg-server, Libre Office, dbus, Bind 9, and the e2fsprogs file system utilities. ®"
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