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tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://tails.boum.org/doc/fir...
https://tails.boum.org/install...
https://tails.boum.org/support...

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://tails.boum.org/doc/fir...
https://tails.boum.org/install...
https://tails.boum.org/support...

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://tails.boum.org/doc/fir...
https://tails.boum.org/install...
https://tails.boum.org/support...

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://tails.boum.org/doc/fir...
https://tails.boum.org/install...
https://tails.boum.org/support...

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://tails.boum.org/doc/fir...
https://tails.boum.org/install...
https://tails.boum.org/support...

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://tails.boum.org/doc/fir...
https://tails.boum.org/install...
https://tails.boum.org/support...

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Tails Linux 2.0.1 is out (Feb 13, 2016) by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-13 04:47 · Score: -1 · on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers

- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...

- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listi...

###

- Changelog:

Just show us where to grab the ISO so we can burn the damned thing to a DVD or USB already, geez.

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Major new features and changes
- Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
the assumptions it makes about this.

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

* Bugfixes
- Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
- Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
(Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

* Minor improvements
- Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
- Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
- Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
- Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
(Closes: #11078).
- Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
- Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
- Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
- Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
for simplicity's sake.

* Test suite
- Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
(Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
- Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
-

Re: An hour to install? by Zontar+The+Mindless · 2016-01-29 13:03 · Score: 1 · on Privacy-Centric Linux Distro Tails Hits 2.0 Release

It is the same. They just push an apparently new and eye-crossingly "simplified" solution out in front of it.

TAILS Linux 1.8.1 is out (Dec 19, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-20 16:04 · Score: -1 · on Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans (csoonline.com)

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...

###

tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
- Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8

* Bugfixes
- Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
against Tor's AppArmor profile.

-- Tails developers Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...

###################

"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."

Learn more about Tails:
https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

TAILS Linux 1.8.1 is out (Dec 19, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-20 16:04 · Score: -1 · on Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans (csoonline.com)

###

tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
- Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8

* Bugfixes
- Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
against Tor's AppArmor profile.

-- Tails developers Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...

###################

"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."

Learn more about Tails:
https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

TAILS Linux 1.8.1 is out (Dec 19, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-20 16:04 · Score: -1 · on Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans (csoonline.com)

###

tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
- Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8

* Bugfixes
- Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
against Tor's AppArmor profile.

-- Tails developers Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...

###################

"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."

Learn more about Tails:
https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

TAILS Linux 1.8.1 is out (Dec 19, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-20 16:04 · Score: -1 · on Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans (csoonline.com)

###

tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
- Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8

* Bugfixes
- Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
against Tor's AppArmor profile.

-- Tails developers Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

###################

"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."

Learn more about Tails:
https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

Nobody wins an arms race by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-19 05:05 · Score: 0 · on EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 (eff.org)

Unless you're using Tails and keeping your identities separate, you're trackable. Even if you do, there are still good ways to track you if someone is so inclined.

At my company, a major online retailer, we use EverCookie to redundantly persist user ids on the frontend across the different browsers on your machine, Etag tracking to match sessions on the backend when JavaScript is disabled, device fingerprinting / panopticlick methods to track any users who've successfully blocked all of the above, and Signal TAG to stitch those identities together and exchange them with data partners server-side so that consumer privacy measures can't disrupt our data collection. For the rare cases where all of that fails, partners like Experian Advertising and SimilarWeb get data from the major ISPs on what pages you're actually visiting and fill in the gaps in our advertising dataset.

Projects like Panopticlick are doing a great job at public education about privacy issues and informing the global debate. But, make no mistake about it, we're in a global arms race between ad tech and privacy tech that can't truly be won, given the pace at which these technologies evolve. Disabling JavaScript, installing ad blockers, enabling do-not-track, private browsing, using multiple browsers, etc won't do much more than make you *feel* safer; advertisers and publishers can and will continue collecting and sharing data for profit, regardless of what privacy settings you have on your browser or OS.

The way this battle is won, to everyone's benefit, is through education and public policy / industry standards. Consumers need to understand the limitations of their privacy online, the legitimate cases where advertisers need to track them, and how everyone wins in a world with *some* tracking under specific use-cases; advertisers, publishers and exchanges will continue to track to the greatest extent of their abilities so long at that remains profitable, which means industry standards and/or government policy will need to be put in place to impose costs on the cost-benefit analysis of tracking.

Nobody wins an arms race by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-19 05:05 · Score: 0 · on EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 (eff.org)

Unless you're using Tails and keeping your identities separate, you're trackable. Even if you do, there are still good ways to track you if someone is so inclined.

At my company, a major online retailer, we use EverCookie to redundantly persist user ids on the frontend across the different browsers on your machine, Etag tracking to match sessions on the backend when JavaScript is disabled, device fingerprinting / panopticlick methods to track any users who've successfully blocked all of the above, and Signal TAG to stitch those identities together and exchange them with data partners server-side so that consumer privacy measures can't disrupt our data collection. For the rare cases where all of that fails, partners like Experian Advertising and SimilarWeb get data from the major ISPs on what pages you're actually visiting and fill in the gaps in our advertising dataset.

Projects like Panopticlick are doing a great job at public education about privacy issues and informing the global debate. But, make no mistake about it, we're in a global arms race between ad tech and privacy tech that can't truly be won, given the pace at which these technologies evolve. Disabling JavaScript, installing ad blockers, enabling do-not-track, private browsing, using multiple browsers, etc won't do much more than make you *feel* safer; advertisers and publishers can and will continue collecting and sharing data for profit, regardless of what privacy settings you have on your browser or OS.

The way this battle is won, to everyone's benefit, is through education and public policy / industry standards. Consumers need to understand the limitations of their privacy online, the legitimate cases where advertisers need to track them, and how everyone wins in a world with *some* tracking under specific use-cases; advertisers, publishers and exchanges will continue to track to the greatest extent of their abilities so long at that remains profitable, which means industry standards and/or government policy will need to be put in place to impose costs on the cost-benefit analysis of tracking.

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 14:44 · Score: -1 · on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 14:44 · Score: -1 · on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

-

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 14:44 · Score: -1 · on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

-

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 14:44 · Score: -1 · on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 14:44 · Score: -1 · on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 02:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

-

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 02:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 02:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 02:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) + New TBB! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-17 02:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux & TBB by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 07:24 · Score: -1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015?

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux & TBB by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 07:24 · Score: -1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015?

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

-

TAILS Linux & TBB by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 07:24 · Score: -1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015?

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

-

TAILS Linux & TBB by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 07:24 · Score: -1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015?

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

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TAILS Linux & TBB by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 07:24 · Score: -1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015?

TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

https://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://tails.boum.org/securit...
https://tails.boum.org/downloa...
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

* Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
- Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
- Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
- Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
- Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
- Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
- Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
- Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
- Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
- Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

* Bugfixes
- Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
wizard yet.

* Minor improvements
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
- Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
- Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
- Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
#10739)
- Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

* Build system
- Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
(i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)

* Test suite
- Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
#10718)
- Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
- Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
- Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
- Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
(Closes: #10506)

-- Tails developers Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

-

Tails and remote storage by klingens · 2015-10-31 08:51 · Score: 3, Informative · on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search?

On your Laptop there is a normal Windows installation which is not used for work. Only for stuff like browsing the web in the evening at the hotel. mails to the kids, etc.
On a USB stick on the keychain there is a copy of Tails https://tails.boum.org/index.e...
You rent some VPS or root server in a country of your choice, under a different name, preferably paid via cash. This is the place where all the data for work is stored. encrypted.
This server you only access via Tails which uses Tor by default.

If you can't do this, you put an encrypted VM onto your Laptop which happens to have the data for work and you write your stuff or access the web for work related research only in this VM. Again using a distro like Tails.

Tails: Privacy for anyone anywhere by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-30 03:04 · Score: 0 · on UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk)

Privacy for anyone anywhere

If you've done nothing, then you've got nothing to hide :)

Bug in Wget passes user's real IP even with TOR! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-18 06:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Google Announces a Router: OnHub

Bug in Wget passes user's real IP even with proxy use (such as Tor/TAILS)

"Just FYI, it appears there is a bug in wget while using a proxy that allows wget to be forced to use the FTP port and thereby unmask the user's IP (normal usage) or at least leak the user's network adapter IP (in TAILS)."

- Comment @ Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/c...
https://archive.is/3YYo0

- Original discovery of bug @ lists.gnu.org:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/...
https://archive.is/Ah3Pg

- Reported to TAILS project development list (tails-dev):
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://archive.is/nPi5h

- First response @ tails-dev
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://archive.is/derHC

- Wget: What is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Bug in Wget passes user's real IP even with TOR! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-18 06:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Google Announces a Router: OnHub

Bug in Wget passes user's real IP even with proxy use (such as Tor/TAILS)

"Just FYI, it appears there is a bug in wget while using a proxy that allows wget to be forced to use the FTP port and thereby unmask the user's IP (normal usage) or at least leak the user's network adapter IP (in TAILS)."

- Comment @ Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/c...
https://archive.is/3YYo0

- Original discovery of bug @ lists.gnu.org:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/...
https://archive.is/Ah3Pg

- Reported to TAILS project development list (tails-dev):
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://archive.is/nPi5h

- First response @ tails-dev
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://archive.is/derHC

- Wget: What is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-14 01:00 · Score: 1, Funny · on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-14 01:00 · Score: 1, Funny · on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-14 01:00 · Score: 1, Funny · on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-14 01:00 · Score: 1, Funny · on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-14 01:00 · Score: 1, Funny · on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-13 07:43 · Score: -1 · on 'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/

TAILS Linux 1.5 is out (Aug 11, 2015) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-13 07:43 · Score: -1 · on 'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years

# 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. - https://tails.boum.org/about/i...

# Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.5, is out.

= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/ve...
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
https://mailman.boum.org/piper...
https://twitter.com/Tails_live...
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid...

= Tails Site:
https://tails.boum.org/