Tails 0.20 released - live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity
Tails: The Amnesic Incognito Live System
Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD or a USB stick independently of the computer’s original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.
Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc
Changes
Notable user-visible changes include:
- New features
- Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
- Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
- Bugfixes
- Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
- Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
- Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
- Minor improvements
- Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
- Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon being deprecated in Tails.
- Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP. Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and haven’t got any security auditting.
- Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect on Pidgin start.
- Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
- Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled by default in Debian’s Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1. It’s unclear what will happen next, so let’s explicitly enable it ourselves.
- Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
- Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser’s.
- Localization
- Many translation updates all over the place.
- Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize for better integration with Transifex.
See the online Changelog for technical detailsTails: The Amnesic Incognito Live System
Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD or a USB stick independently of the computer’s original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.
Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc
Changes
Notable user-visible changes include:
- New features
- Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
- Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
- Bugfixes
- Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
- Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
- Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
- Minor improvements
- Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
- Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon being deprecated in Tails.
- Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP. Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and haven’t got any security auditting.
- Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect on Pidgin start.
- Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
- Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled by default in Debian’s Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1. It’s unclear what will happen next, so let’s explicitly enable it ourselves.
- Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
- Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser’s.
- Localization
- Many translation updates all over the place.
- Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize for better integration with Transifex.
Download - https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
Source-https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.20/index.en.html
