A new version of this distro has been released

Jan 15, 2015 18:44 GMT  ·  By

Tails, a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and that helps you use the Internet anonymously, is now at version 1.2.3 and is available for download and testing.

The Tails distro already made a name for itself long before Edward Snowden said that it used this particular OS to remain hidden from prying eyes. It's been available for years and it's constantly being improved and worked on. If anything, the number of updates for the OS seems to have increased in the past few months.

Tail also has other attributes that makes it rather special. Its developers are not public figures and it's very likely that they don't even know each other in real life. That also means that authority figures will have a hard time tracking them down and forcing them to stop. Tails can be used for a variety of reasons and not all of them are good.

The Amnesic Incognito Live System has been updated

Tails is actually an acronym for The Amnesic Incognito Live System and the name of the distro says it all. It has a number of features that makes it hard to detect online or offline.

"Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.2.3, is out. This release fixes numerous security issues and all users must upgrade as soon as possible. On January 3rd, the SSL certificate of our website hosting provider, boum.org, expired. This means that if you still are running Tails 1.2.1 or older, you will not get any update notification. Please help spreading the word!" wrote the makers of the OS.

The devs have also explained that the Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 3.16.7-ckt2-1, the TOR Browser is now at version 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr), the upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser has been disabled, and some smaller issues have been fixed.

A complete changelog can be found in the official announcement. You can download Tails 1.2.3 right now from Softpedia.

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