Tails 5.0 -- The portable, anti-surveillance Linux distribution

Date:
Thu, 05 May 2022 01:12:54 GMT

Description:
A Linux distribution with a focus on... not remembering anything. Seriously.

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Tails is, without a doubt, one of weirdest Linux distributions on planet Earth.

The key feature of Tails is amnesia. Which the Tails team describes thusly:

Tails always starts from the same clean state and everything you do
disappears automatically when you shut down Tails.

Without Tails, almost everything you do can leave traces on the computer:

Websites that you visited, even in private mode

Files that you opened, even if you deleted them

Passwords, even if you use a password manager

All the devices and Wi-Fi networks that you used

On the contrary, Tails never writes anything to the hard disk and only runs from the memory of the computer. The memory is entirely deleted when you shutdown Tails, erasing all possible traces.

Thats right. Every time you boot up tails, off a USB drive typically, your computer is in a completely clean, fresh state. Like youve never used it before. Tails also has a heavy focus on piping Internet traffic through TOR.

Its all about being as anonymous and non-trackable as possible.

Tails does have the optional functionality of having an encrypted persistent storage , luckily. So if you need to store, you know, some files you can. You just need to jump through a few hoops to do so.

Well, Tails just released their big 5.0 version the first release based on Debian (code name Bullseye) and, other than the features I just described it looks like a remarkably familiar GNOME Shell based desktop.

Outside of moving to Debian 11, and updating a bunch of packages to current versions, one of the biggest changes of Tails 5.0 seems to be the addition of Kleopatra an application for handling PGP encryption.

Tails is, for obvious reasons, probably not the kind of operating system that most of us would want (or need) to use on any regular basis. But the Tails doesnt remember anything about you from boot to boot does have its value.

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Link to news story: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/tails-50-the-portable-anti-surveillance


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