New Version of Incognito a.k.a. Tails Has been Released

The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.7, is out. It is built on top of Debian Squeeze.

-Tor 0.2.1.30
-Protecting against memory recovery: new, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when the boot media is physically removed.
-3G: support mobile broadband devices such as 3G USB dongles
-wireless: install Atheros and Broadcom firmwares
-install the HTTPS Everywhere extension
-optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time to allow users of the (old and now unsupported) Incognito live system to access the data on previously created media; this is not meant to be used to create new TrueCrypt media
For more, check out - Changes

 

I downloaded 0.7 TAILS on April 8, 2011.

It booted up to a blank screen. The work-around is to hit TAB when the splash screen appears, and modify the boot command line to delete splash and add debug to the end of the boot command - then press Enter and it will boot up.

-- Tom

 

Thank god! Glad to see these distros getting Broadcom support! I hate broadcom just because nothing supports it out of the box. also love the "instant shutdown and wipe" on removal of flash drive

 

Apparently this is the last version where Truecrypt will be included:

https://tails.boum.org/support/truecrypt/index.en.html

Even if TrueCrypt looks like free software, it is not included in Debian due to its restrictive license. The development is done in a closed fashion, so even if the source code is free, we can assume than there is not much review happening on a daily basis.

For all the above reasons, Tails developers do not recommend to use TrueCrypt.