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Privacy-Centric Linux Distro Tails Hits 2.0 Release

Posted by timothy on from the your-eyes-only dept.

A_Mythago writes: The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) has finalized version 2.0, which has several improvements and updates to continue to meet their mission of preserving privacy, anonymity and circumventing censorship without a trace, using a Debian 8.0 custom live distro. More details about Edward Snowden's use of Tails and the distro itself can be found at a previous Slashdot story from 2014.

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  1. Re:Additional info by LichtSpektren · · Score: 3, Insightful

    switch from SysVinit to systemd

    Yeah, that freaked out the Devuan paranoids https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20160127.151137.ab4c9937.en.html

    The release notes tell you exactly why they're OK with systemd:

    "+ Sandbox many services using Linux namespaces and make them harder to exploit.
    + Make the launching of Tor and the memory wipe on shutdown more robust.
    + Sanitize our code base by replacing many custom scripts."

    Maybe that will change if a backdoor or serious security vulnerabilities are discovered, but until then, one need not be afraid.