1 [[!meta title="Press and media information"]]
8 The general purpose announcements that we publish are available either
9 by email or by RSS feed on [[Tails News|news]].
10 They are mainly meant for Tails users.
12 We also sometimes publish press releases but they are not archived on
13 the website. Write us an email at <tails@boum.org> if you want to be
14 informed of future press releases.
16 Quick links to better understand Tails
17 ======================================
19 * [Quick links to better understand Tor](https://www.torproject.org/press/press.html.en)
20 * [[About Tails|about]] for a quick overview
21 * More details about the [[features and software|doc/about/features]] included in Tails
22 * Our [[design document|contribute/design]] about Tails specification, threat model and implementation
23 * Our [[documentation|doc]] explaining in details how to use Tails
28 * [Probando TAILS 0.16 Privacidad y
29 Anonimato](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBdGbK54WPE), an
30 introductory video to Tails, in Spanish.
35 As Tails is being more and more used throughout the world, it is
36 mentioned regularly in the press and in research papers. This list is
37 not comprehensive, but illustrates some of the significant articles
38 that have been published about Tails.
42 * 2014-01-07: [A RAT in the Registry: The Case for Martus on
43 TAILS](http://benetech.org/2014/01/07/a-rat-in-the-registry-the-case-for-martus-on-tails/)
44 explains how Benetech have selected TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito
45 Live System) to be the default environment for their use of Martus while
46 defending Tibetan human rights defenders against targeted malware attacks.
47 * 2014-01: "Tails: The Amnesiac Incognito Live System – Privacy for
48 Anyone Anywhere", by Russ McRee, in this month's issue of the
49 [Information Systems Security Association
50 Journal](http://www.issa.org/?page=ISSAJournal).
54 * 2013-12: Bruce Schneier
55 [answered](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1r8ibh/iama_security_technologist_and_author_bruce/cdknf7a)
56 to someone asking him what Linux distribution is its favorite: "I don't
57 use Linux. (Shhh. Don't tell anyone.) Although I have started using Tails".
58 * 2013-12-30: Jacob Appelbaum stated at the [Chaos Communication
59 Congress](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5713.html):
60 "if you are a journalist and you are not using Tails, you should
61 probably be using Tails, unless you *really* know what
63 * 2013-12-12: In [A conversation with Bruce
64 Schneier](http://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/bruce-schneier-and-eben-moglen-2.html),
65 as part of the "Snowden, the NSA and free software" cycle at
66 Columbia Law School NYC, Bruce Schneier says:
67 - "I think most of the public domain privacy tools are going to be
68 safe, yes. I think GPG is going to be safe. I think OTR is going
69 to be safe. I think that Tails is going to be safe. I do think
70 that these systems, because they were not -- you know, the NSA has
71 a big lever when a tool is written closed-source by a for-profit
72 corporation. There are levers they have that they don't have in
73 the open source international, altruistic community. And these are
74 generally written by crypto-paranoids, they're pretty well
75 designed. We make mistakes, but we find them and we correct them,
76 and we're getting good at that. I think that if the NSA is going
77 after these tools, they're going after implementations."
78 - "What do I trust? I trust, I trust Tails, I trust GPG [...]"
79 - "We can make it harder, we can make it more expensive, we can make
80 it more risky. And yes, every time we do something to increase one
81 of those, we're making ourselves safer. [...] There are tools we
82 are deploying in countries all over the world, that are keeping
83 people alive. Tor is one of them. I mean, Tor saves lives. [...]
84 And every time you use Tor [...] provides cover for everyone else
86 * 2013-11: The German-speaking ADMIN magazine [reviews
87 Tails](http://www.admin-magazin.de/Das-Heft/2013/11/Tails-0.20).
88 * 2013-10 : (in french) Framablog, [Le chiffrement, maintenant](http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2013/10/19/Le-chiffrement-maintenant-compil), contains a whole chapter about Tails.
89 * 2013-10 : SecureDrop, "Aaron Swartz’s unfinished whistleblowing platform" promotes Tails in both [user manual](https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/blob/master/docs/user_manual.md) and [security audit](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CSE-13-08-02.PDF). via [Korben.info](http://korben.info/securedrop-aaron-swartz.html)
90 * 2013-10: The [occasional issue n°8 of
91 MISC](http://boutique.ed-diamond.com/misc-hors-series/500-mischs8.html)
92 magazine is dedicated to privacy topics. Tails is mentioned
94 * 2013-10-15: [CRYPTO-GRAM, October 15, 2013](http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1310.html)
95 Bruce Schneier: "One thing I didn't do, although it's worth considering, is
96 use a stateless operating system like Tails. You can configure Tails with a
97 persistent volume to save your data, but no operating system changes are ever
98 saved. Booting Tails from a read-only DVD -- you can keep your data on an
99 encrypted USB stick -- is even more secure. Of course, this is not foolproof,
100 but it greatly reduces the potential avenues for attack."
101 * 2013-09-12: In [Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and
103 Services](http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/inside-the-effort-to-crowdfund-nsa-proof-email-and-chat-services)
104 by DJ Pangburn, Riseup birds write (about the TBB) "Combined with
105 the TAILS project, which Riseup supports, there is nothing better."
106 * 2013-09-05: In [How to remain secure against NSA
107 surveillance](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance),
108 Bruce Schneier wrote: "Since I started working with Snowden's
109 documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR,
110 TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to
112 * 2013-08-13: (in French) [Tails en version 0.20](http://linuxfr.org/news/tails-en-version-0-20) on LinuxFR
113 * 2013-08-12: [Anonym und sicher Surfen mit
114 Tails](http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/2013/09/Anonym-und-sicher-Surfen-mit-Tails),
115 in the September edition of the
116 [LinuxUser](http://www.linux-user.de/) magazine, that includes Tails
117 on the accompanying DVD.
118 * 2013-07-02: [Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/encryption-works#tails)
119 by Micah Lee on Freedom of the Press Foundation
120 * 2013-05-21: [Tails 0.18 can install packages on the
121 fly](http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Tails-0-18-can-install-packages-on-the-fly-1866479.html)
123 * 2013-01-31: [Comment (ne pas) être
124 (cyber)espionné ?](http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/01/31/comment-ne-pas-etre-espionne/)
125 by Jean-Marc Manach in "BUG BROTHER -- Qui surveillera les surveillants ?"
126 * 2013-01-29: Tails is
127 [documented](https://www.wefightcensorship.org/article/tails-amnesic-incognito-live-systemhtml.html)
128 in Reporters Without Borders' [Online Survival Kit](https://www.wefightcensorship.org/online-survival-kithtml.html)
129 * 2013-01-14: [DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 490](http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130114#released)
134 * 2012-12-05: [Tails Secure Distro](http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Features/Tails-Secure-Distro)
135 by Bruce Byfield on Linux Magazine Pro
136 * 2012-12-03: [DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 485](http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20121203)
138 * 2012-11-05: [Tails and Claws](http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20121105#feature), review by Jesse Smith on DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 481
139 * 2012-08: (in Dutch) [Veilig En Anoniem Op Internet](http://www.oeioei.nl/internet/tails.php)
140 * 2012-07: [Linux Format](http://www.linuxformat.com/archives?issue=158)
141 contained a small, general article about Tails, as well as Tails
142 0.10.1 on the supplied DVD. *This DVD ships Tails in a `Tails` directory,
143 and its boot scripts have been altered to cope with that. The rest of
144 the system has not been altered according to our findings.*
145 * 2012-07: (in German) [Die totale Privatsphäre](http://www.derbund.ch/digital/internet/Die-totale-Privatsphaere/story/22734697),
146 by Klaus Gürtler in Der Bund, a Swiss-German newspaper
147 * 2012-06: [Tails 0.12 blends in better in Internet cafés](http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Tails-0-12-blends-in-better-in-internet-cafes-1619818.html) on The H Open
148 * 2012-06: [The Tor Project helps journalists and whistleblowers go online
150 a trace](http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/06/the-tor-project-helps-journalists-and-whistleblowers-go-online-without-leaving-a-trace/),
151 by Adrienne LaFrance on Nieman Journalism Lab
152 * 2012-05-16: (in Italian) [Tails, un sistema operativo a base Tor](http://it.paperblog.com/tails-un-sistema-operativo-a-base-tor-1175730/) on paperblog.it
153 * 2012-05-03: Tails 0.11 was announced in [LWN.net Weekly Edition](https://lwn.net/Articles/494923/); the press release was
154 [published on LWN](https://lwn.net/Articles/495669/) too.
155 * 2012-04-23: (Video) [Protect your Privacy Completely - Web Browsing with TAILS Tor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04mzYuhl8f4)
156 * 2012-04: [Leave Your Cellphone at Home](http://nplusonemag.com/leave-your-cellphone-at-home),
157 Interview with Jacob Appelbaum, by Sarah Resnick on n+1
158 * 2012-02-02: (in French) [Vie privée : le guide pour rester anonyme sur Internet](http://www.rue89.com/2012/02/02/vie-privee-le-guide-pour-rester-anonyme-sur-internet-228990), par Martin Untersinger journaliste pour Rue89
159 * 2012-01-13: (in French) Korben.info : [Tails – La distribution Linux qui protège votre anonymat et votre vie privée](http://korben.info/tails.html)
160 * 2012-01-12: (in French) LinuxFR
161 [announces](https://linuxfr.org/news/tails-en-version-010) Tails 0.10.
162 * 2012-01-09 : (in German) Heise online [reported](http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Tails-Anonym-im-Internet-1405508.html)
163 the release of Tail 0.10.
164 * 2012-01-06: [Linux privacy distribution Tails updated to version
165 0.10](http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-privacy-distribution-Tails-updated-to-version-0-10-1404973.html)
170 * 2011-11-18: [Tails, the incognito live system, gets 0.9
171 release](http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Tails-the-incognito-live-system-gets-0-9-release-1381623.html)
173 * 2011-10-28 : (in French) A Tails 0.8 CD was shipped with the [Linux Pratique, issue 68](http://www.linux-pratique.com/index.php/2011/10/28/linux-pratique-n°68-–-novembredecembre-2011-–-chez-votre-marchand-de-journaux) magazine.
174 * 2011-08: Linux Journal: [Tails - You Can Never Be Too Paranoid](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-distro-tales-you-can-never-be-too-paranoid)
175 * 2011-04-27: [The Amnesic Incognito Live System: A live CD for anonymity](https://lwn.net/Articles/440279/) on lwn.net
176 * 2011-04-20: Release announcement for Tails 0.7 on [lwn.net](https://lwn.net/Articles/439371/)
177 * 2011-04-18: Incognito is mentionned in the [Distrowatch Weekly News](http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110418#news)
178 * 2011-04-15: Release announcement on [Distrowatch](http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06629)
183 * 2013-11-28: [Helping Human Rights Defenders to Communicate Securely: TAILS,
184 National Democratic Institute, USA](http://www.coe.int/en/web/world-forum-democracy/lab4_)
185 at the World Forum for Democracy
190 * 2013-08-26: [Practical anonymity](http://www.loshin.com/) by Peter Loshin has
191 a dedicated chapter on Tails.