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Pressespiegel
Tails wird regelmäßig in der Presse und in Forschungsarbeiten erwähnt. Diese Liste ist nicht vollständig, zeigt jedoch einige der wichtigsten Artikel, die über Tails veröffentlicht wurden.
2020
2020-06-23: Privacy-Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI Hacked it by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard.
2020-06-10: Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard.
2020-02-26: Tails : le logiciel qui a permis à Snowden d’échapper aux services secrets by Tibor Van Cutsem in Solidaire.
Ältere Nachrichten
2019
2019-12-18: Pourquoi je préfère la BD sur Snowden à son autobiographie (& vive Tails aussi <3) by Jean-Marc Manach in Le Monde.
2019-12-17: Sa clé USB qui permet d'aller sur le dark web by Guillaume Pley in Le QG.
Our blog post on "Celebrating 10 years of Tails" received some press coverage:
2019-12-15: L’outil préféré d’Edward Snowden ne laisse aucune trace depuis dix ans by Christophe Lamfalussy in La Libre Belgique.
2019-12-16: Happy 10th birthday, TAILS -- the real Paranoid Linux! by Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing.
2019-11-21: Open source & branding – a contradiction? by Molly Clare Wilson from Simply Secure.
2019-10-24: ris announced the release of Tails 4.0 in Linux Weekly News.
2019-08-24: Edward Snowden writes on Twitter:
“In 2013, when a small team of journalists and I went head to head against @NSAGov to reveal the secret system of global mass surveillance, we used @Tails_Live to communicate—to reduce the risk of basic but deadly mistakes.
The NSA only learned of our plan when it hit the news.”“If you look at the way post-2013 whistleblowers have been caught, it is clear the absolute most important thing you can do to maintain your anonymity is reduce the number of places in your operational activity where you can make mistakes. Tor and Tails still do precisely that.”
2019-08-04: In Attorney for Daniel Hale blasts indictment for leaking classified drone documents, David Gilmour from The Daily Dot explains that the indictment of Daniel Hale for the leaks of the Drone Papers focuses his use of anonymity tools like Tails and Tor. According to Hale's attorneys Jesselyn Radack “These cases are criminalizing both whistleblowing and journalistic best practices like using encryption and protecting source anonymity”.
2019-01-30: Want a bit of privacy? Got a USB stick? Welcome to TAILS 3.12 by Richard Speed in The Register.
2019-01-21: Tails 3.12 fait évoluer sa méthode d'installation : quels changements concrets ? by David Legrand in Next INpact.
2018
2018-12-27: Tails : une cause qui nous touche by Mozinet in Communauté Mozilla francophone.
2018-12-05: Lebanon Libraries Face Issue of Computer Filters in Valley News about libraries in Pennsylvania offering free Tails drives to library users to browse the Internet without fear of being traced.
2018-09-08: Tails in neuer Version 3.9: Extrem anonymes Linux-OS mit wichtigem Update by Jörg Geiger in Chip.
2018-04-27: Formative Testing, with Tails by Simply Secure.
2018-04-04: The FIDH - Worldwide Movement for Human Rights, relayed our call for donation by making it clear that Tails is an important too for Human Rights Defenders in French, English and Farsi.
2018-03-19: Edward Snowden retweeted about our participation to the DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge explaining:
Because I've used @Tails_live for years. The journalists who broke the mass surveillance revelations of 2013 all relied on it. Free, libre, and open source software projects quietly save the world every day, even when you can't see it, and their success depends on your support.
2017
2017-10-25: The Centre for Investigative Journalism has published a series of introductory videos to Tails.
2017-10-21: Arte televion series on philosophy. French: «Incognito, donc libre ?», German: "Inkognito, also frei?"
2017-05-09: Announcing the Tails Social Contract by ris in LWN.
2017-04-05: A new law allow ISPs to sell your data without your consent. Here’s how to shield your privacy by Nima Fatemi in Technically.
2017-04: Snowden's Box by Dale Maharidge and Jessica Bruder in Harper's.
2017-02-11: UX et logiciels libres : retour d’expérience (TAILS) by Romy Duhem-Verdière (aka tetue), about the report talk we gave at Pas Sage En Seine on 2015-06-18, with the designers who helped us make it easier to start using Tails (in French).
2016
2016-08-05: A step-by-step guide on how to download, install, and start using Tails, the world's most secure platform by Dan Patterson in TechRepublic.
2016-08-03: Tails 2.5 final περιηγηθείτε ανώνυμα στο Διαδίκτυο in iGuru News (in Greek).
2016-08-02: Tails 2.5 Anonymous Live CD Released with Tor Browser 6.0.3 and Icedove 45.1 by Marius Nestor in Softpedia.
2016-06-08: Tails 2.4: la distro más amnésica se actualiza by Tannhausser (in Spanish).
2016-04-13: Tails Product Review: Tails OS by Kevin Lee in Privacy Shell.
2016-03-17: Tails – das Betriebssystem für gemäßigt Paranoide by Patrick Beuth in Zeit Online.
2016-03-15: In Best Linux Distro: Linux Experts Rate Distros Tails is ranked #5 by Bruce Byfield who adds that "even if you decide not to run Tails, its documentation is well worth reading as a primer in security".
2016-03-15: Wie der Computer zur Hochsicherheitszone wird by Jessica Binsch in Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German).
2016-03-14: Logan CIJ Symposium 2016: Technik, die entgeistert by Kristian Kißling in Linux-Magazin covers the panel we were participated in at the Logan CIJ Symposium on March 12 (in German).
2016-03-09: Tails 2.2: adiós Vidalia, hola Onion Circuits by Tannhauser (in Spanish)
2016-02-25: Tails official mysterious during interview by Bryan Lunduke in Network World.
2016-02-11: Tails installer is now in Debian in bits.debian.org.
Early 2016, several articles covered the release of Tails 2.0:
- 2016-01-14: Tails Linux 2.0 est disponible en version finale by Vincent Hermann in nextimpact.com (in French)
- 2016-01-19: Tails, une distribution pour votre anonymat by pamputt in Linuxfr.org (in French)
- 2016-01-27: Tails 2.0: Das Anonymisierungs-OS im neuen Look by Fabian A. Scherschel in heise (in German).
- 2016-01-27: Edward Snowden's OS of choice gets a major update by Steve Dent in engadget.
- 2016-01-27: Tails 2.0 se pasa a GNOME Shell 3.14 y Debian 8 by Tannhausser (in Spanish).
- 2016-02-03: Die Linux-Distribution zum sicheren Surfen neu aufgelegt by Jürgen Donauer in golem.de (in German).
- 2016-02-03: The private, anonymous desktop of Tails 2.0 by Nathan Willis in LWN.
- 2016-02-08: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 647 by Joshua Allen Holm in DistroWatch.
2016-01-12: Tails is listed as best distro for privacy in The Best Linux Distros of 2016 by Swapnil Bhartiya in Linux.com.
2016-01-07: Tails - Soukromí pro každého - kdekoliv a kdykoliv by Václav in Valeas blog (in Czech).
2015
2015-11-12: Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy by Micah Lee in The Intercept
2015-11-06: Surf Like Snowden: Lebanon Libraries Offering Privacy-Friendly Flash Drives by Maggie Cassidy in the Valley News.
2015-11-06: Five hours with Edward Snowden by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, in which Tails is listed in "Snowden’s top 5 secure programs".
2015-10-29: Découvrez Tails et protégez vos communications et votre navigation by Aline Hof in Linux Pratique (in French)
2015-10-17: Tails: Gizlilik ve güvenlik by İsmail Gökhan Bayram in Evrensel (in Turkish).
2015-08-04: Cinq systèmes d’exploitation pour snober Windows 10 (et Mac OS X) by Damien Leloup in Le Monde (in French).
2015-07-29: Gut geschützt im Internetcafé by Johannes Wendt in Zeit (in German).
2015-07-27: מדריך: כך תתגוננו מפני מעקב ברשת (in Hebrew).
2015-07-25: 'Tails' Bantu Amankan Aktivis Daring in Pikiran Rakyat (in Indonesian).
2015-07-23: Digital Solution Helps Shield Online Activists by Doug Bernard in Voice of America.
2015-07-14: Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched by Micah Lee in The Intercept.
2015-07: Full Circle magazine by Ronnie Tucker (in French)
2015-06-20: In The state of encryption tools, 2 years after Snowden leaks Patrick Howell O'Neill from the Daily Dot studies the adoption rate of encryption tools such as Tor, Tails, and OpenPGP since the beginning of the Snowden revelations.
2015-06-18: Tor : Mails-toi de tes oignons by Amaelle Guiton in Libération (in French).
2017-05-23: Mit Tails Privatsphäre im Netz schützen in Chip.
2015-05-10: Joshua Datko blogs about running Tails from the MinnowBoard Max, a cheap open hardware computer.
The release of Tails 1.4 was covered by quite a few interesting articles:
- 2015-05-13: Защищённый Linux-дистрибутив Tails 1.4 получил Tor Browser 4.5 и Paperkey in Nixp (in Russian).
- 2015-05-14: Disponível Tails 1.4 by Camilla Lemke in Under-Linux (in Portuguese).
- 2015-05-15: La distribution Tails Linux 1.4 embarque le nouveau Tor Browser by Vincent Hermann in Next INpact (in French).
- 2015-05-18: Tails 1.4 ya está en la calle para utilizar by Joaquin García in Linux Adictos (in Spanish).
- 2015-05-15: Tails 1.4 polishes up the privacy-obsessed Linux OS trusted by Edward Snowden by Chris Hoffman in PCWorld.
The release of Tails 1.3 was covered by quite a few interesting articles:
- 2015-03-14: Tails 1.3 : l’OS préféré d’Edward Snowden, testé par Mammoutux by Brutux (in French).
- 2015-03-01: Lançado Tails 1.3 in Espírito livre (in Portuguese).
- 2015-02-27: Tails 1.3 Released, Introduces 'Electrum Bitcoin Wallet' by Wang Wei on The Hacker News.
- 2015-02-26: The World's ‘Most Secure’ Operating System Adds a Bitcoin Wallet by Ian DeMartino for the cryptocurrency community.
- 2015-02-25: Tails : La distribution Linux axée sur la sécurité passe à la version 1.3. L'OS préféré de Snowden renforce ses fonctions de sécurité by Michael Guilloux in Developpez.com (in French).
2015-02-20: In 'Citizenfour' Will Receive The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize, Laura Poitras announces that "the prize money for the award will be given to the Tails Free Software project" because "this film and our NSA reporting would not have been possible without the work of the Free Software community that builds free tools to communicate privately".
2015-02-05: (in French) In a note to the French parliamentary commission on digital rights and freedom, Philippe Aigrain explains that tools like Tor and Tails are bringing together the necessary conditions, from a technical point of view, to defend our rights to anonymity and privacy against massive surveillance programs.
Websites that want to secure their journalistic sources like The Intercept and Sourcesûre, created by French speaking media Le Monde, La Libre Belgique, Le Soir de Bruxelles, and RTBF, recommend their sources and journalists to use Tails.
2014
2014-12-28: Martin Untersinger considers Tails as a bulletproof tool against NSA spying in "Les énormes progrès de la NSA pour défaire la sécurité sur Internet" (in French).
2014-12-28: Der Spiegel published leaked "internal NSA slides" categorizing Tails as "catastrophic" to their mission (on page 25). It was the source material for their article "Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security" in which Tails is only referred to indirectly.
2014-12-24: Andy Greenberg from Wired calls for donations to Tails in "8 Free Privacy Programs Worth Your Year-End Donations": "Tails has received little mainstream support and may be the security software most in need of users’ donations".
2014-11-20: Amaelle Guiton writes about Tails in "Tails, l'outil détesté par la NSA, qui veut démocratiser l'anonymat en ligne" (in French), and gives a detailed transcript of an interview she made with some of us in "Tails raconté par ceux qui le construisent" (in French as well).
2014-11-13: Thorin Klosowski from lifehacker.com compares Linux Security Distros: Tails vs. Kali vs. Qubes.
2014-11-05: Tails 1.2 is featured on LinuxFr in "Tails 1.2, une distribution pour votre anonymat" (in French).
2014-10-29: In "The 7 Privacy Tools Essential to Making Snowden Documentary CITIZENFOUR, the Electronic Fountier Foundation says that "one of the most robust ways of using the Tor network is through a dedicated operating system that enforces strong privacy" like Tails.
2014-10-28: In "Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You.", Micah Lee, from The Intercept, gives many details on how Tails helped Snowden, Poitras, and Gleenwald start working together.
2014-10-16: According to an article in Wired, in the closing credits of Citizenfour, Poitras took the unusual step of adding an acknowledgment of the free software projects that made the film possible: The roll call includes the anonymity software Tor, the Tor-based operating system Tails, GPG encryption, Off-The-Record (OTR) encrypted instant messaging, hard disk encryption software Truecrypt, and Linux.
2014-07-26: Tails 1.1 is announced, in French, in an article by pamputt on LinuxFr
2014-07: I2P bug and zero-days buzz:
- 2014-07-21: Exodus Intelligence tweets about multiple RCE/de-anonymization zero-days on the day before Tails 1.1 is released.
- Several news websites relay that information before the details of the
vulnerability are disclosed:
- Exploit Dealer: Snowden's Favorite OS Tails Has Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Lurking Inside by Thomas Brewster on Forbes.
- Don't look, Snowden: Security biz chases Tails with zero-day flaws alert by Iain Thomson on The Register.
- The world's most secure OS may have a serious problem by Russell Brandom on The Verge
- 2014-07-23: We made our users aware of that process.
- 2014-07-23: Exodus Intelligence publishes Silver Bullets and Fairy Tails to explain the vulnerability.
- 2014-07-25: We publish a security advisory explaining the scope of the problem, and temporary solutions.
2014-07-08: In the July 8th Keiser Report on RT. The Tails related part of the Keiser Report starts at 15'40".
2014-07-03: Tails above the Rest: Installation, Part II, Part III by Kyle Rankin in the Linux Journal.
2014-07-03: Some articles on Tails users being targeted by NSA XKeyscore:
- In NSA targets the privacy-conscious by J. Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. Kabisch, L. Kampf, L. Ryge.
- In Von der NSA als Extremist gebrandmarkt by Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz (in German).
- In If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance by Cory Doctorow.
- In TOR, logiciel-clé de protection de la vie privée, dans le viseur de la NSA by Martin Untersinger on LeMonde.fr (in French).
2014-06-25: Dai segreti di Snowden ai social: il raduno italiano degli hacker by Andrea Rinaldi, in Corriere di Bologna (in Italian).
2014-06-30: Tails, il sistema operativo incognito che frega l'NSA by Carola Frediani, in Wired.it (in Italian).
2014: late April and early May, many press articles covered the Tails 1.0 release, including:
- In TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes 1.0, Cory Doctorow writes "Effectively, this is the ParanoidLinux I fictionalized in my novel Little Brother."
- Tails reaches 1.0 by Nathan Willis in Linux Weekly News.
- Anonymous OS reportedly used by Snowden reaches version 1.0 by Steven Musil in CNET.
- Anonymisierungs-OS Tails wird erwachsen in heise Security (in German).
- Secure OS Tails Emerges From Beta by David Murphy in PCMAG.
- Edward Snowden's OS of choice, the Linux-based Tails, is now out of beta by Steve Dent in Engadget.
- Tails 1.0: Sicherheit und Anonymität by Ferdinand Thommes in PRO-LINUX.DE (in German).
- Tails, l'OS dédié à la confidentialité, passe en version 1.0 by Julien L. in Numerama (in French).
- Anonymous Linux Distribution TAILS Reaches Release Version 1.0 by Max Smolaks in TechWeek Europe.
- Snowden's Beloved Tails OS Reaches v1.0 Milestone by Richard Adhikari in LinuxInsider.
- Tails 1.0 – La distrib sécurisée sort enfin en version stable by Korben (in French).
2014-04-30: Tails, le système qui voulait vous rendre vraiment anonyme by Alexandre Laurent, in Clubic (in French).
2014-04-29: This is the most secure computer you’ll ever own by Russell Brandom, in The Verge.
2014-04-29: How to be secure on the Internet, really secure by Victoria Wagner Ross, in Examiner.com.
2014-04-29: Tuck in Your Tails and Hide from Big Brother by Stetson Smith, in Techgage.
2014-04-28: Cómo instalar y usar Tails, la distribución Linux para navegar de manera anónima by Juan Jesús Velasco in El Diario.
2014-04-23: Tails Linux installieren: Der Anti-NSA-PC, Das Snowden Betriebssystem by Jörg Geiger in Chip.
2014-04-23: Amaelle Guiton mentions Tails in the article Chiffrer le Net pour retrouver notre vie privée en ligne: une bonne solution qui pose des problèmes in Slate (in French).
2014-04-22: golem.de publishes Anonymisierung -- Mit Tails in den Datenuntergrund (in German), by Jörg Thoma.
2014-04-17: Bruce Schneier writes "Nice article on the Tails stateless operating system. I use it." in a blog post.
2014-04-16: Leave no trace: Tips to cover your digital footprint and reclaim your privacy by Alex Castle in PCWorld.
2014-04-16: Tails, il sistema operativo di Edward Snowden by Luca Colantuoni in Webnews.it.
2014-04-16: In Pourquoi Edward Snowden a utilisé Tails Linux pour organiser sa fuite (in French) published on the 01net net-zine, Gilbert Kallenborn reports about use of Tails by Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras et al.
2014-04-15: Tails, il sistema operativo incognito che frega l’NSA by Carola Frediani, in Wired.it.
2014-04-15: The recent Wired article is relayed on Slashdot homepage.
2014-04-15: "Tails": Wie Snowden seine Kommunikation vor der NSA versteckt, in derStandart.at
2014-04-14: In the press conference she held after winning a Polk Award for her reporting on Edward Snowden and the NSA, Laura Poitras said "We just published a blog about a tool that's called Tails, which is a operating system that runs on either USB stick or SD disc, that is a sort of all-in-one encryption tool that you can use for PGP and encryption. And it's just really secure. [...] So, it's a really important tool for journalists."
2014-04-14: Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA by Klint Finley, in Wired.
2014-04-02: In Help Support the Little-Known Privacy Tool That Has Been Critical to Journalists Reporting on the NSA by Trevor Timm:
- Laura Poitras says: "I've been reluctant to go into details about the different steps I took to communicate securely with Snowden to avoid those methods being targeted. Now that Tails gives a green light, I can say it has been an essential tool for reporting the NSA story. It is an all-in-one secure digital communication system (GPG email, OTR chat, Tor web browser, encrypted storage) that is small enough to swallow. I'm very thankful to the Tails developers for building this tool."
- Glenn Greenwald says: "Tails have been vital to my ability to work securely on the NSA story. The more I've come to learn about communications security, the more central Tails has become to my approach."
- Barton Gellman says: "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."
2014-03-17: In Index Freedom of Expression Awards: Digital activism nominee Tails, Alice Kirkland interviews the Tails project about our nomination for the Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Awards.
2014-03-13: In his Les 7 clés pour protéger ses communications article (in French) published by the Tribune de Genève, Simon Koch recommends using Tails.
2014-03-12: In his Happy 25th Birthday World Wide Web - Let's Not Destroy It article published by the Huffington Post, Mike Harris writes that "Increasing numbers of activists are using high-tech tools such as Tor or Tails to encrpyt their internet browsing and email".
2014-03-12: In his US and UK Spy Agencies Are "Enemies of the Internet" article, published in the Motherboard section of the Vice network, Joseph Cox covers Reporters Without Borders' latest report, and writes "If you're a journalist working on anything more sensitive than London Fashion Week or League 2 football, you might want to consider using the Linux-based 'Tails' operating system too."
2014-03-08: Reporters Without Borders's Grégoire Pouget blogs about Tails: FIC 2014 : Comment être réellement anonyme sur Internet (in French).
2014-03-04: Tails wins the 2014 Access Innovation Prize, that was focused this year on Endpoint Security.
2014-03-03: In the March edition of the Linux Journal, that celebrates 20 years of this journal, Kyle demonstrates Tails.
2014-02-27: The Daily Dot announced the experiments on porting Tails to mobile devices in "Tor takes anonymity mobile with new smartphone OS" and "Beta testing for Tor's anonymous mobile OS begins this spring". Note that this is not an official project of Tails, see the homepage of the Tomy Detachable Secure Mobile System project for more info.
2014-02-27: In his article "Why It’s Vital For Users to Fund Open-Source Encryption Tools" Trevor Timm from Freedom of the Press Foundation explains that Tails « has been vital for most, if not all, of the NSA journalists. [...] Its prime use case is journalists trying to communicate or work in environments in which they may normally be at risk or compromised. The NSA stories have been the biggest story in journalism in the past decade, yet the tool the reporters rely on is incredibly underfunded, is maintained by only a handful of developers, and operates on a shoestring budget. »
2014-02-07: In his review of uVirtus, Kheops, from Telecomix concludes that « Users should prefer Tails and other mature secure live distributions (such as IprediaOS, Liberté Linux, Privatix and Whonix) over uVirtus since they provide a real safety improvement to the user. For any activity that does not entail transferring large quantities of data (such as video files), there is no strong reason to prefer uVirtus over any of these. »
2014-01-14: On Linux.com, Carla Schroder picks Tails as the best Linux distribution for 2014 in the "Best Fighting the Man Distro" category.
2014-01-07: A RAT in the Registry: The Case for Martus on TAILS explains how Benetech have selected TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) to be the default environment for their use of Martus while defending Tibetan human rights defenders against targeted malware attacks.
2014-01: "Tails: The Amnesiac Incognito Live System – Privacy for Anyone Anywhere", by Russ McRee, in this month's issue of the Information Systems Security Association Journal.
2013
2013-12: Bruce Schneier answered to someone asking him what Linux distribution is its favorite: "I don't use Linux. (Shhh. Don't tell anyone.) Although I have started using Tails".
2013-12-12: In A conversation with Bruce Schneier, as part of the "Snowden, the NSA and free software" cycle at Columbia Law School NYC, Bruce Schneier says:
- "I think most of the public domain privacy tools are going to be safe, yes. I think GPG is going to be safe. I think OTR is going to be safe. I think that Tails is going to be safe. I do think that these systems, because they were not -- 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. We make mistakes, but we find them and we correct them, and we're getting good at that. I think that if the NSA is going after these tools, they're going after implementations."
- "What do I trust? I trust, I trust Tails, I trust GPG [...]"
- "We can make it harder, we can make it more expensive, we can make it more risky. And yes, every time we do something to increase one of those, we're making ourselves safer. [...] There are tools we are deploying in countries all over the world, that are keeping people alive. Tor is one of them. I mean, Tor saves lives. [...] And every time you use Tor [...] provides cover for everyone else who uses Tor [...]"
2013-11-12: In its review "Which Linux distro is best for protecting your privacy?", techrada.com prefers Tails over 4 other distributions: "The main advantages of Tails are its readiness for USB installation and the complete nature of its desktop and its documentation. The Tails system menu also contains enough applications to make you do almost everything you may need without rebooting. The documentation, while not interesting as the one for Whonix, is more than adequate to help even Linux beginners. Yay for Tails, then!"
2013-11: The German-speaking ADMIN magazine reviews Tails.
2013-10 : (in French) Framablog, Le chiffrement, maintenant, contains a whole chapter about Tails.
2013-10 : SecureDrop, "Aaron Swartz’s unfinished whistleblowing platform" promotes Tails in both user manual and security audit. via Korben.info
2013-10: The occasional issue n°8 of MISC magazine is dedicated to privacy topics. Tails is mentioned a few times.
2013-10-15: CRYPTO-GRAM, October 15, 2013 Bruce Schneier: "One thing I didn't do, although it's worth considering, is use a stateless operating system like Tails. You can configure Tails with a persistent volume to save your data, but no operating system changes are ever saved. Booting Tails from a read-only DVD -- you can keep your data on an encrypted USB stick -- is even more secure. Of course, this is not foolproof, but it greatly reduces the potential avenues for attack."
2013-10-04: In Tor: 'The king of high-secure, low-latency anonymity', page 7. NSA: "[Tails adds] severe CNE misery to equation."
2013-09-12: In Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and Chat Services by DJ Pangburn, Riseup birds write (about the TBB) "Combined with the TAILS project, which Riseup supports, there is nothing better."
2013-09-05: In How to remain secure against NSA surveillance, Bruce Schneier wrote: "Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to write about."
2013-08-13: (in French) Tails en version 0.20 on LinuxFR
2013-08-12: Anonym und sicher Surfen mit Tails, in the September edition of the LinuxUser magazine, that includes Tails on the accompanying DVD.
2013-08-11: In their DeadDrop/StrongBox Security Assessment, a research group (Alexei Czeskis, David Mah, Omar Sandoval, Ian Smith, Karl Koscher, Jacob Appelbaum, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Bruce Schneier) suggests inserting Tails in the loop of the DeadDrop/StrongBox system. They also write: "We believe that sources should be adviced to use the Tails LiveCD. This provides better anonymity and is easier to use than the Tor Browser bundle."
2013-07-02: Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance by Micah Lee on Freedom of the Press Foundation
2013-05-21: Tails 0.18 can install packages on the fly on The H Open
2013-01-31: Comment (ne pas) être (cyber)espionné ? by Jean-Marc Manach in "BUG BROTHER -- Qui surveillera les surveillants ?"
2013-01-29: Tails is documented in Reporters Without Borders' Online Survival Kit
2013-01-14: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 490 announces Tails 0.16
2012
2012-12-05: Tails Secure Distro by Bruce Byfield on Linux Magazine Pro
2012-12-03: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 485 announces Tails 0.15
2012-11-05: Tails and Claws, review by Jesse Smith on DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 481
2012-08: (in Dutch) Veilig En Anoniem Op Internet
2012-07: Linux Format contained a small, general article about Tails, as well as Tails 0.10.1 on the supplied DVD. This DVD ships Tails in a
Tails
directory, and its boot scripts have been altered to cope with that. The rest of the system has not been altered according to our findings.2012-07: (in German) Die totale Privatsphäre, by Klaus Gürtler in Der Bund, a Swiss-German newspaper
2012-06: Tails 0.12 blends in better in Internet cafés on The H Open
2012-06: The Tor Project helps journalists and whistleblowers go online without leaving a trace, by Adrienne LaFrance on Nieman Journalism Lab
2012-05-16: (in Italian) Tails, un sistema operativo a base Tor on paperblog.it
2012-05-03: Tails 0.11 was announced in LWN.net Weekly Edition; the press release was published on LWN too.
2012-04-23: (Video) Protect your Privacy Completely - Web Browsing with TAILS Tor
2012-04: Leave Your Cellphone at Home, Interview with Jacob Appelbaum, by Sarah Resnick on n+1
2012-02-02: (in French) Vie privée : le guide pour rester anonyme sur Internet, par Martin Untersinger journaliste pour Rue89
2012-01-13: (in French) Korben.info : Tails – La distribution Linux qui protège votre anonymat et votre vie privée
2012-01-12: (in French) LinuxFR announces Tails 0.10.
2012-01-09 : (in German) Heise online reported the release of Tail 0.10.
2012-01-06: Linux privacy distribution Tails updated to version 0.10 on The H Open
2011
2011-11-18: Tails, the incognito live system, gets 0.9 release on The H Open
2011-10-28 : (in French) A Tails 0.8 CD was shipped with the Linux Pratique, issue 68 magazine.
2011-08: Linux Journal: Tails - You Can Never Be Too Paranoid
2011-04-27: The Amnesic Incognito Live System: A live CD for anonymity on lwn.net
2011-04-20: Release announcement for Tails 0.7 on lwn.net
2011-04-18: Incognito is mentionned in the Distrowatch Weekly News
2011-04-15: Release announcement on Distrowatch
Awards
2016-06-22: Tails got an award by Mozilla to make Tails ISO images build reproducibly.
2014-12-01: Tails was awarded the November 2014 DistroWatch.com donation.
2014-06-06: Tails received an honorable mention at APC Chris Nicol FLOSS Prize: "In particular, the jury wishes to highlight the Tails project, for breaking ground in the area of user privacy protection."
2014-03-11: Tails won the 2014 Access Innovation Prize, for Endpoint Security. Access reports that "Tails embodies the successful collaboration of developers, trainers, security professionals towards tackling the spectrum of user needs -- from usability to security -- in high-risk environments".
Conferences
2016-03-12: Logan CIJ Symposium 2016: Panel 'Future of OS' with David Mirza Ahmad, Joanna Rutkowska, and Tails (recording).
2014-12-29: In Reconstructive narratives at the 31th Chaos Communication Congress, Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras explained that properly implemented encryption technologies such as Tor, Tails, GnuPG, OTR, and RedPhone are some of the only ones that can blind the pervasive surveillance of the NSA. They are rated as "catastrophic" by the NSA itself.
2014-07-16: The Amnesic Incognito Live System at Interference
2014-03-16: Lightning talk about Tails at 2014 Mini-Debconf in Barcelona. The talk begins at 24:15 of the video.
2013-12-30: Jacob Appelbaum stated at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress: "if you are a journalist and you are not using Tails, you should probably be using Tails, unless you really know what you're doing".
2013-12-29: Tails needs your help! at 30C3
2013-11-28: Helping Human Rights Defenders to Communicate Securely: TAILS, National Democratic Institute, USA at the World Forum for Democracy
2013-10-30: Tails : confidentialité et anonymat, pour tous et partout — L'utilisabilité et de la maintenabilité, fonctionnalités critiques pour la sécurité at IRILL
Films and videos
The Centre for Investigative Journalism has published a series of introductory videos to Tails.
Tails is being used in Citizenfour by Laura Poitras and appears in the credits.
Tails is used in Season 5, Episode 3 of the Homeland TV series (images gallery).
Tails 1.3 : The Amnesic Incognito Live System, by Linux Scoop, an introductory video to Tails 1.3.
Probando TAILS 0.16 Privacidad y Anonimato, an introductory video to Tails, in Spanish.
Books, booklets, and guide
2021-09: Tails: Conectándonos a internet de manera segura y anónima in Milpa Digital #59 by CódigoSur.
2017-09: Guide d'autodéfense numérique has several sections based on Tails (in French).
2016-04 : Guide de survie Tails by the Chouette Couette collective - 324p. Also comes with slides (in French).
2015-11: Anonym im Internet mit Tor und Tails by Peter Loshin 200p (in German).
2015-06: L’informatique : se défendre et attaquer (in French).
2015-03: Second edition of Band I: Tails - The Amnesic Incognito Live System by capulcu, a booklet explaining Tails for activists (in German).
2015-03: A DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity by safehubcollective.org qualifies Tails as "ultimate anonymity and amnesia".
2014-12: Band I: Tails - The Amnesic Incognito Live System by capulcu is a booklet explaining Tails for activists (in German).
2014-12: Information Security for Journalists by Silkie Carlo and Arjen Kamphuis for the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
2013-08-26: Practical anonymity by Peter Loshin has a dedicated chapter on Tails.
We Fight Censorship from Reporters Without Borders.