Tails is a live distributtion that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leave no trace using unless you ask it explicitly.
It is a complete operating-system designed to be used from a CD or a USB stick 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.
Tails relies on the Tor anonymity network to protect your privacy online: all software are configured to connect through Tor, and direct (non-anonymous) connections are blocked.
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Iceweasel:
· Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look reliable enough these days.
Software:
· Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
· Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
Hardware support:
· Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
· Time synchronization Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
· Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and allowing some failure ratio.
· Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
· Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
· Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
· Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
Miscellaneous:
· Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
· SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting Host / ProxyCommand usage.
· Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
· Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving. When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually saved drafts.
· tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
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