Tails @tails@fosstodon.org

Out of transparency and a reminder:

There is not yet a clear definition on how Tails likes to have its fediverse account managed.

At least until then, bear in mind that this account is not run by its core project members, but by a happy user and contributor of Tails. Nothing of what you read here, is an official statement.

Once you feel any discomfort how this account is managed, or have suggestions for improvement, please reach out to @syster (that's me) or this account.

We documented how to use @dino in Tails.

#Dino is being considered as an option to replace Pidgin in Tails.

Please report your findings!

https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topics/dino
#xmpp

Tails report for June, 2021:
https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2021_06/

In case you don't mind telling, and it's not bringing you in trouble, for what reasons do you use(d) Tails?

Tails 4.20 is out. 👋

It includes a complete redesign of how a user connects to #Tor and makes it now a lot easier to use bridges. With these bridges you can circumvent censorship of @torproject

What else?

#Onionshare updated to 2.2
This major update adds a feature to host a website accessible from a Tor onion service.

Update KeePassXC to 2.6.2
Update Tor Browser to 10.5.2.
Update Thunderbird to 78.11.0.
Update Tor to 0.4.5.9

Read the full report here:
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.20

⚠️ Tails is safe but not magic ⚠️

Tails is safer than any regular operating system, but it cannot protect you from everything.

Check out our new warnings page to stay even safer, especially if you are at high risk:
https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warnings/

Update:
The certificate for https://tails.boum.org is renewed.

The certificate for tails.boum.org expired on 6/13/2021.
Sorry that we missed to renew it in advance. Should be fixed on Monday.

If you're an active Tails user, remember that you have a copy of that page on your stick, and you can read the documentation offline at anytime.
>Applications >Favorites >Tails Documentation

"dear contributors!

We're planning an IP address change for our main server, to be done in
the 2nd week of June (7th-11th) 2021.

Please avoid relying on the server and expect some outage during those
days.

Please contact us (tails-sysadmins at boum.org) in case you have any
special needs regarding this subject."

You'd like to use a modern chat application, while being under the full protection #Tails has to offer? (amnesia, anonymous, censorship resistant, encryption)

You might enjoy @dino then, one of Tails candidates to replace pidgin.
No phone number, anonymous, censorship resistant, e2e encrypted, decentralized/federated, easy to use, based on #xmpp.

With Tails "additional software" function you don't need to wait. Here's how to install it yourselve:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18235

You might awaited curiously for the 4.19 Tails release, that just came out.

Even so the team worked hard to introduce the new process on how a user connects to Tor, with the aim to be better in circumventing censorship and surveillance, you'll have to wait for the next release scheduled for July 13.

"We made a lot of progress but didn't feel confident enough to release it today." Join as a beta tester:
https://tails.boum.org/news/test_4.19-rc1/

Read here what's new in Tails 4.19:
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.19

Our main server was offline last week-end because of a hardware failure in our datacenter:
https://tails.boum.org/news/server_outage_april_2021

There are no signs of malicious activity whatsoever and our infrastructure is fine.

The same failure affected Riseup, our neighbor:
https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/1388214079316283394

#Tails #riseup

Also remember:
If you have a running Tails stick, you also have an offline copy of Tails webpage.

Whenever you lack an internet connection or there is a sever outage, just click on "Tails documentation". If you have a working internet connection it will try to reach https://tails.boum.org. If you wish to read the offline version, just turn off your internet connection for a moment, or copy the following url into your browser:
file:///usr/share/doc/tails/website/about.en.html

https://tails.boum.org/ is live again. 🎉
Sorry for the inconvenience. It was offline over the weekend.

"our main server got stuck in a reboot and the monitoring alerts depend on said server to deliver mail, so this went unnoticed over the weekend."
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18288#note_168604

https://tails.boum.org is currently down.
Sorry for the inconvenience. It will be up again soon.
More info will follow tomorrow.

Call for beta tester!

In order to make it easier to circumvent censorship and to obscure the usage of Tor, there will be a complete redesign of how Tails user connect to Tor.

Your feedback is needed, to spot as many problems as possible before we release 4.19 to all users.
How to contribute:
https://tails.boum.org/news/test_4.19-beta1/

You hear the first time about Tails?
Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
https://tails.boum.org

Tails 4.19 is scheduled to be released on June 1.

Tails 4.18 is out: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.18/

It fixes reliability issues with the Additional Software feature, and more.