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- 法國期刊 Mediapart 支持 Tails，其它也該跟進
我們很高興趣宣佈 Mediapart，一份獨立的法國調查期刊, 決定每年要在財務上支持 Tails。
過去幾年， Mediapart 在揭露調查報導法國幾則主要的政治醜聞上扮演了重要的角色。因此他們很了解其消息來源、記者和讀者可能會面臨的數位威脅。
根據 Barton Gellman的報導， Edward Snowden 以及報導揭發美國國安局洩密事件記者等人也採用 Tails ：
« Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you. Tails puts the essential tools in one place, with a design that makes it hard to screw them up. I could not have talked to Edward Snowden without this kind of protection. I wish I'd had it years ago. »
自從那時候起， 全球許多記者 了解這個方法並採用 Tails 來讓他們更為安全。如同 Jean-Marc Manach 表示：
« War reporters have to buy helmets, bullet-proof vests and rent armored cars; journalists using the Internet for their investigations are much luckier: to be as secured as war reporters, they only have to download Tails, burn it on a CD, install it on a SD card, and learn the basics of information and communication security, and it's free! »
同樣地新聞組織投資在實體安全或是商用軟體來執行其工作，新聞組織應該也要投資在自由軟體的工具上，就如同安全專家 Bruce Schneier 一再重覆強調的，為了安全：
« I think most of the public domain privacy tools are going to be safe, yes. [...] I think that Tails is going to be safe. [...] You know, the NSA has a big lever when a tool is written closed-source by a for-profit corporation. There are levers they have that they don't have in the open source international, altruistic community. And these are generally written by crypto-paranoids, they're pretty well designed. »
Tails has 也被推薦使用於 SecureDrop 和 GlobaLeaks 等吹哨揭弊的安全平台。
談到有關記者使用加密時所遇到的挑戰， 網路自由的專家 Christopher Soghoian 在EncryptNews 數位安全與新聞的會議上曾這樣說：
« News organizations need to also contribute to this community pool of tools. We need to have [reporters] contributing patches to PGP, OTR, and Tails. These organizations need to be funding $5.000 or $10.000 improvements to make these tools better. Because everyone is relying on these tools and none of the major organizations that are actually benefiting them are actually contributing to their development. »
Mediapart 是第一個正式支持 Tails 並回應我們捐款請求的組織，但希望這不是最後一個。
如果你的單位也有興趣成為定期捐款者，請聯絡我們： tails-accounting@boum.org (OpenPGP key).