Tails 1.2 - Privacy for anyone anywhere
Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:
- use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
- leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
- use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.
Changes
Notable user-visible changes include:
Notable user-visible changes include:
- Major new features
- Install (most of) the Tor Browser, replacing our previous Iceweasel-based browser. The version installed is from TBB 4.0 and is based on Firefox 31.2.0esr. This fixes the POODLE vulnerability.
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc.
- Confine several important applications with AppArmor.
- Bugfixes
- Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1).
- Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15, and isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated I2P Browser. Also, start I2P automatically upon network connection, when the
i2pboot option is added. - Make it clear that TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (ticket #7739), and document how to open TrueCrypt volumes with
cryptsetup. - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (ticket #5730). In particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
- Make the OTR status in Pidgin clearer thanks to the formatting toolbar (ticket #7356).
- Upgrade syslinux to 6.03-pre20, which should fix UEFI boot on some hardware.
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15, and isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated I2P Browser. Also, start I2P automatically upon network connection, when the
Tails 1.2 - Privacy for anyone anywhere
Reviewed by 0x000216
on
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Rating: 5
Reviewed by 0x000216
on
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Rating: 5
