Tails report for November 2023 - tor-project

13 Dec 2023


      Hello :)
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Tails report for November 2023 https://tails.net/news/report_2023_11/*
Highlights
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We had asked Radically Open Security
    https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/ to audit Tails. The results
    of the audit https://tails.net/news/audit_by_ROS/index.en.html
    reinforced Tails credentials as a "solid" operating system for
    preserving anonymity.
We were super proactive with addressing the reported
    vulnerabilities, fixing them all within 3 weeks of being reported.
    This is a reminder that as good as Tails is, it needs to be updated
    regularly!
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We undertook a bunch of home improvement projects for our new
    address https://tails.net/news/new_domain/index.en.html. Highlights:
o the language switcher on the website is more prominent, and also
        in the website footer,
      o warning buttons display warnings better - in a new colour, and
        with wrapped text,
      o our redesigned security page
        https://tails.net/security/index.en.html better showcases the
        history of our security advisories.
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We have a new sponsor: igaming.com https://www.igaming.com/ joined
    our mission! Our donors also received the quarterly newsletter with
    early insights into upcoming Tails features. You, too, could
    subscribe while making your next donation
    https://tails.net/donate/index.en.html. Help make our ongoing
    fundraiser https://tails.net/news/gift_of_privacy/index.en.html a
    success!
Releases
November featured 2 new versions of Tails: 5.19.1 and 5.20.
5.19.1 https://tails.net/news/version_5.19.1/index.en.html was an 
emergency release. We updated the Tor client to bring the fix to the 
TROVE-2023-006 vulnerability 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/TROVE 
to Tails users.
And in 5.20 https://tails.net/news/version_5.20/index.en.html, we:
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brought the usual, latest updates to Tor Browser and Thunderbird,
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fixed a security vulnerability in uBlock Origin to protect Tails
    users from advanced browser fingerprinting techniques, and
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continued making Persistent Storage more usable, and made it even
    easier to report issues when it doesn't work through improvements to
    WhisperBack.
Metrics
Tails was started more than 825,741 times this month. That's a daily 
average of over 27,520 boots