The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.7, is out. It is built on top of Debian Squeeze.

  1. Changes
  2. I want to try it!
  3. Can I use it on a pre-Intel Mac computer?
  4. A glimpse towards the future

Changes

Notable changes include:

  • Tor 0.2.1.30

  • Protecting against memory recovery: new, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when the boot media is physically removed.

  • Hardware support

  • printers: install more printer drivers, allow the default user to manage more kinds of printers
  • 3G: support mobile broadband devices such as 3G USB dongles
  • wireless: install Atheros and Broadcom firmwares

  • scanner and multi-function peripherals: better support

  • Iceweasel

  • install the HTTPS Everywhere extension
  • many Anonymity Set preservation enhancements, mostly inspired by the Tor Browser Bundle configuration

  • support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy

  • Other software

  • user-friendly encryption support: install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins
  • add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy
  • optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time to allow users of the (old and now unsupported) Incognito live system to access the data on previously created media; this is not meant to be used to create new TrueCrypt media
  • make better use of battery-powered hardware
  • replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier to use

  • install scribus-ng instead of scribus: more features, less bugs

  • Firewall

  • drop incoming packets by default
  • forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN

  • set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth)

  • Miscellaneous

  • fromiso= bugfixes
  • configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for Italian and Portuguese
  • more robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures; display the logs when the clock synchronization fails
  • disable automatic media mounting and opening to protect against a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights
  • GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms

Plus the usual bunch of minor bug reports and improvements.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

I want to try it!

Download it, seed it!

Can I use it on a pre-Intel Mac computer?

Tails images with i386 in their name work on the Intel x86 architecture only. However, we've been working towards releasing a Tails image suitable for the pre-Intel Macs hardware (PowerPC architecture). Stay tuned, it will be prepared and made available soonish.

A glimpse towards the future

Were do we go from here? Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? As explained in our brand new "how to contribute" documentation, here are many ways you can contribute to Tails: no need to be a hardcore developer.