What is Tails?
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**T**he **A**mnesic **I**ncognito **L**ive **S**ystem
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.
Challenges
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- Release every 6 weeks
- Mostly volunteers
- Around 7000 boots a day, double every 6 months
- Around 2000 commits by +10 people in the last 6 months
- Very scarse human-ressources
Roadmap
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- **This winter**
- Incremental upgrades
- MAC spoofing
- **Tails 1.0**, April 15
- Better bridges support
- **Tails 1.1**, May 27: Tails Wheezy
- GNOME 3
- **Tails 2.0**: sustainability and maintainability
- UEFI, Mac
- Tails Greeter
- Same day security upgrades (automated builds and tests)
- Mitigate the effects of security issues (hardening and sandboxing)
Translators
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*Translators can allow more people around the world to use Tails.*
- Translate programs included in Tails [upstream]
- Translate our custom programs through Transifex
- Rescue orphan translations of the website [Git]
- German (5%)
- Spanish (10%)
Writers
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*Good writers can make Tails accessible to more people.*
- [#[6376](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6376)]: Migrate the content of the forum to the FAQ
- [#[6533](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6533)]: Mention I2P in About page
- [#[6311](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6311)]: Document how to get the source code of packages shipped in Tails
- [#[5816](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5816)]: Document what kind of anonymity Tails provides
Testing
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- Test MAC spoofing
- [#[5390](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5390)]: Test hardware requirements on Wheezy
- [#[6528](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6528)]: Test new Vagrant stuff on Wheezy
- [#[6223](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6223)]: Test Linphone 3.5.1 or newer with onioncat
Web & Graphic Design
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*Designers can make Tails easier to use and more appealing.*
- [#[6323](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6323)]: Improve the CSS of the boxed titles
- [#[6165](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6165)]: Improve visually the Contribute section
- [#[5797](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5797)]: Create a logo for Tails
- Design outreach material (flyer, stickers, etc.)
User Interface
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- Early testing of new features (eg. MAC spoofing)
- Help us redesign Tails Greeter
- [#[6417](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6417)]: Evaluate Tails Greeter revamp proposals
GNOME Hacking
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*Improve Tails Greeter and migration to GNOME3.*
- [#[5917](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5917)]: Warn when caps-lock in ON [Tails Greeter] [Python]
- [#[5594](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5594)]: Better administration password UI [Tails Greeter] [Python]
- [#[5355](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5355)]: Wheezy: add a quick shutdown button back
- [#[6342](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6342)]: Update Windows camouflage for GNOME3
Debian Hacking
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*Maintain backports and package our custom programs.*
- [#[6350](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6350)]: Prepare a live-build configuration that builds a Sid desktop image
- [#[6507](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6507)]: Package our OpenPGP applet for Debian
- [#[6148](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6148)]: Help get Torbirdy into Debian
- Help maintain:
- ruby-libvirt [Debian#[733413](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733413)]
- Maintain backports for Wheezy:
- poedit
- Pidgin
- i18nspector
- monkeysign
- Xorg stack
Persistence
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- [#[5881](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5881)]: Add reboot button to persistence setup assistant [Perl]
- [#[6485](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6485)]: Support multiple persistent paths per preset [Perl]
- [#[6403](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6403)]: Implement liferea persistence preset in Tails Wheezy [Perl]
- [#[5929](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5929)]: Create encrypted TailsData by default [Tails Installer] [Python]
Automation and Infrastructure
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*Puppet, Debian, and Cucumber (Ruby).*
- [#[6295](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6295)]: Evaluate consequences of importing large amounts of packages into reprepro
- [#[6303](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6303)]: Adapt our APT repository infrastructure to be able to handle tons of packages [reprepo, shell]
- [#[5894](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5894)]: APT repository: notify incoming [with and without Puppet]
- [#[6547](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6547)]: Puppet module to manage kgb-bot [easy Puppet]
- [#[6270](https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6270)]: Publish our Jenkins read-only on the web
Donate
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- Bitcoins only for the moment
Bitcoin address: 1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2
- Through torserver.net in the future...
Next steps
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- Join our next collective working session:
2014-01-04, 9am to 1pm UTC / 10am to 2pm CET
- Next monthly meeting:
2014-01-09, 9pm UTC / 10pm CET
#tails-dev on irc.oftc.net, port 6697
Contact
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- At 30C3
- NoisySquare
- On the Internet
- tails-dev@boum.org, public development list
- tails@boum.org, private matters
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- #tails on irc.oftc.net, port 6697
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