[MontelLUG] Fwd: [ml] OT: [Fwd: [amnesia-news] Tails 0.10 is out]

Dom 8 Gen 2012 20:16:04 CET

Magari a qualcuno interessa... (non so perché ma mi è venuto in mente il 
segretario :-D).

On 05/01/2012 09:17, Marco Calamari wrote:
> E' uscita una nuova versione di TAILS.
>
> Tail e' una Debian live in cui tutto in traffico di rete
>   viene rediretto attraverso Tor, e che contiene i principali
>   applicativi per la privacy in Rete gia' correttamente
>   installati. E' distribuita come immagine iso ibrida,
>   che puo' essere indifferentemente masterizzata su un
>   cd o copiata su una chiavetta USB non partizionata.
>
> Enjoy
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Tails - News<rss a boum.org>
> Reply-to: amnesia a boum.org
> To: amnesia-news a boum.org
> Subject: [amnesia-news] Tails 0.10 is out
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:23:45 -0000
>
> The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.10, is out.
>
> All users must upgrade as soon as possible.
>
> # Changes
>
> Notable user-visible changes include:
>
>    * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
>
>    * Iceweasel
>
>      * Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
>      * Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
>      * Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format.
>      * Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when booted in English. Many users choose English because their own language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in their own language.
>      * Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as the TBB does.
>      * Disable third-party cookies. They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what TBB has been doing for years.
>
>    * Do not transparently proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor. Instead drop all non-Torified Internet traffic. Hence applications has to be explicitly configured to use Tor in order to reach the Internet from now on.
>
>    * Software
>
>      * Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1. This version will not warn about new Tor versions (this is handled by Tails security check instead).
>      * Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
>      * Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1, built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
>      * Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11; the start script (which was broken in Tails 0.9) is now fixed.
>      * Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
>      * [Install Nautilus Wipe][1] instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
>
>    * Hardware support
>
>      * Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
>      * Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
>      * Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
>      * Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
>
>    * Internationalization
>
>      * Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
>      * Install some Indic fonts.
>      * Install some Russian fonts.
>      * Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
>
>    * Miscellaneous
>
>      * Support booting in "[Windows XP-like camouflage mode][2]".
>      * Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
>      * Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
>      * Add custom SSH client configuration:
>
>        * Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
>        * Enable maximum compression level.
>        * Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
>        * Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username was not specified.
>
>      * Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet; install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to [the documentation][3], and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
>      * Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system. The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems. There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry these days.
>      * Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
>      * Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
>      * Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe to use Tor Hidden Services.
>      * Various htpdate improvements.
>
> Plus the usual bunch of minor bug reports and improvements.
>
> See the [online Changelog][4] for technical details.
>
> # I want to try it / to upgrade!
>
> See the [Getting started][5] page.
>
> # Known issue
>
> The memory erasure on Tails shutdown cannot guarantee that all memory in the 2 GB to 4 GB region is wiped. The improvements made in Tails 0.10 should at least make the situation better than previously.
>
> # A glimpse towards the future
>
> Were do we go from here? Have a look to our [roadmap][6] to see where we are heading to.
>
> Would you want to help? As explained in our ["how to contribute" documentation][7], here are many ways **you** can contribute to Tails: no need to be a hardcore developer.
>
>     [1]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/encryption_and_privacy/secure_deletion/index.en.html
>     [2]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/first_steps/windows_theme/index.en.html
>     [3]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/encryption_and_privacy/FireGPG_susceptible_to_devastating_attacks/index.en.html
>     [4]: http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/changelog;hb=refs/tags/0.10
>     [5]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../getting_started/index.en.html
>     [6]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/roadmap/
>     [7]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/index.en.html
>
> URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.10/
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-- 
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(anonimo)
Ma mi prendesse veramente in pieno una buona volta.
(Samuele)

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