Hi,
Tails =====
- Tails played a surprising role in busting undercover cops in Cataluña!
https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/infiltrats/video/6319194/ (30:00 to 31:25)
We discussed how we could us this information to improve Tails for the people we do care about:
* https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20749 * https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/7496
I contacted the journalists behind this case to get more info.
- Presented Tails at ProtectCon, a conference about digital security for domestic violence survivors, together with Raya.
- Uploaded and improved our generic presentation slides:
https://tails.net/contribute/how/promote/slides/
- Fixed 11 small and old documentation issues.
That was about a third of all documentation issues in our backlog :)
* Have an FAQ about messaging apps (#18956) https://tails.net/support/faq/#messaging
* Document better the RSS reader of Thunderbird (#19392) https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/thunderbird/#news
* Document that the chat feature of Thunderbird doesn't work (#19704) https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/thunderbird/
* Document how to persist fonts (#19908) https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/additional_fonts/
* Document the keyboard layout on the Boot Loader Menu (#16233) https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/boot_options/
* Allow changing boot options permanently (#18268) https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/boot_options/#index3h1
* Document using Tor bridges as entry guards (#11884) https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/circuits/#view
* Document restarting Tor to change all circuits (#18268) https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/circuits/#view
* Document basic keyboard shortcuts for accessibility (#19904) https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/accessibility/#shortcuts
* Keyboard shortcuts needs documentation or implementation (#18974) https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/desktop/#shortcuts
* Add a warning about proprietary blobs in Trusting Tails (#12722) https://tails.net/doc/about/trust/
- Fixed 2 small and new documentation issues
* Outdated suggestion to run "sudo tails-debugging-info" (#20466) * Setting up a permanent hidden service (#20742) * Document collected addresses in Thunderbird (!1906)
- Designed a warning about the risks of unplugging the USB stick (#5760)
- Discussed our roadmap for 2025 with the Tails Team
Tor VPN =======
- Upgraded the Raspberry Pi that I use to simulate censorship to Debian 12 (Bookworm). All the networking changed!
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/ux/-/commit/5270e28b