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Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship 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, USB stick, or SD card 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.
Official site: https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
For help with TAILS, a good starting point is https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/index.en.html.
Changes in 1.1.1
Security fixes
Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user. I2P was also upgraded to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1, and stricter firewall rules are applied to it, among other security enhancements.
Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667 and CVE-2014-4943).
Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network (ticket #7688).
Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (ticket #7769).
Bugfixes
Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition properties on MBR partitions.
Minor improvements
Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
Install gnome-user-guide (ticket #7618).
Install cups-pk-helper (ticket #7636).
Update the SquashFS sort file, which should speed up boot from DVD.
Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (ticket #7706) which should make the Tails ISO image smaller. |
