Tails 1.1.1 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System


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.  

Changes
Notable user-visible changes include:
  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
    • Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user. I2P was also upgraded to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1, and stricter firewall rules are applied to it, among other security enhancements.
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
    • Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667 and CVE-2014-4943).
    • Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network (ticket #7688).
    • Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (ticket #7769).
  • Bugfixes
    • Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both (ticket #7807).
    • Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition properties on MBR partitions (ticket #7716).
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
    • Install gnome-user-guide (ticket #7618).
    • Install cups-pk-helper (ticket #7636).
    • Update the SquashFS sort file, which should speed up boot from DVD (ticket #6372).
    • Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (ticket #7706) which should make the Tails ISO image smaller.
See the online Changelog for technical details.


Tails 1.1.1 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System Tails 1.1.1 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System Reviewed by Zion3R on 11:58 PM Rating: 5