Let's say I have a Live CD containing Tails that I use to connect to the Tails website. I see a new stable version has come out and want to download the ISO. Can I do this through Tails (through Tor), or is it too dangerous considering the risk posed by rogue exit nodes?
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- Downloading/updating Tails using Tails
Yes, it's fine. You will, of course, be using your trusted copy of the Tails signing key to authenticate your download. So there's nothing* a malicious node could do to the .iso which you wouldn't be alerted to.
* That's assuming the operator of the node doesn't have a workable attack against the SHA1/PKI scheme. None are known. If such an attack was "doing the rounds" we'd all soon know about it!