Happy 4.20: Latest version of Tails bakes connection wizard into pro-privacy Linux distro

Privacy and security-focused Linux distribution Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, has announced a major new release completely overhauling how it connects users to the Tor network. "After connecting to a local network, a Tor Connection assistant helps you connect to the Tor network," the project maintainers explained …

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This is where I feel we've lost something with the death of magazines with cover disks. If the next issue of PC Pro for example were to have a Tails 4.20 disk on the cover I would go out of my way to buy a copy. With cash & from a small newsagent of course. A one page article with a simple guide to verifying the disk (with tools not from the same disk) would help fill the edition.

I used to buy Pro every month, haven't done so for years.

I have no currently identified need for Tails. I like to keep my online footprint small & controllable starting with zero antisocial media accounts. All the same it's the kind of tool I'd like to have at hand just in case.