Incognito Live CD/USB CD provides software to use various Internet technologies while keeping the user anonymous. The project is based primarily on Tor while including supporting applications. The target use case is that of using a public computer, such as in a library, securely.
This CD may also be copied to a USB drive to provide persisted user settings. The intended user base are those who would like to perform standard Internet communications such as WWW, mail, IRC, IM, etc, while being confident that their anonymity is not compromised. Power users who want precise control over the application and network configuration may be disappointed.
There are full and tiny versions of the CD. The tiny version is intended to fit on small media and basically provides an anonymous web browser. The full version supports a variety of Internet applications.
The Gentoo Catalyst release build tool is used to build the CD. This tool is designed to make the CD easy to maintain. For an update of only Tor it takes a simple version bump and 30 minutes for the tiny CD, two hours for the full version. Human effort is minimal, Catalyst does most of the work. A full update of all software takes several hours to compile, but this is seldom done or needed and again generally requires little human effort. Adding or removing software to/from the CD is also generally trivial.
The following applications are kept up to date as soon as possible. Others may be updated sooner if a major security problem occurs (Firefox, etc.)
· Tor
· TorK
· Vidalia
· Privoxy
· Mixminion
Remaining applications, including the base system, will be updated on a roughly two month schedule.
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· Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
· Iceweasel
· Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
· Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
· Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format.
· Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when booted in English. Many users choose English because their own language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in their own language.
· Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as the TBB does.
· Disable third-party cookies. They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what TBB has been doing for years.
· Do not transparently proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor. Instead drop all non-Torified Internet traffic. Hence applications has to be explicitly configured to use Tor in order to reach the Internet from now on.
· Software
· Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1. This version will not warn about new Tor versions (this is handled by Tails security check instead).
· Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
· Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1, built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
· Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11; the start script (which was broken in Tails 0.9) is now fixed.
· Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
· Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
· Hardware support
· Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
· Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
· Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
· Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
· Internationalization
· Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
· Install some Indic fonts.
· Install some Russian fonts.
· Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
· Miscellaneous
· Support booting in "Windows XP-like camouflage mode".
· Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
· Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
Add custom SSH client configuration:
· Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
· Enable maximum compression level.
· Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
· Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username was not specified.
· Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet; install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
· Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system. The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems. There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry these days.
· Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
· Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
· Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe to use Tor Hidden Services.
· Various htpdate improvements.
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