[Tails-dev] Working Tails on Mac

2018-12-06 Thread Daniel Rostamloo 
Hello,
   I've recently discovered your wonderful project and decided to explore
as much as I could with my MacBook Pro (Early 2015). Of course, I soon
found out that many users have had difficulty implementing Tails alongside
their macOS systems. After doing some research and several trials, I've
found a way to operate the OS without the use of additional boot managers
-- such as rEFInd -- and I hope your development team can use this
information to ease the experience for us Mac users.
   First things first: almost all of the forum pages that provide a
workaround for using Tails next to OSX suggest also using rEFInd. I wasn't
fond of the overhead that installing new software to boot Tails would
create, so I searched for user cases where the extra boot manager was
avoided. I came across this
 entry on the Tails forum
which redirected me to this project  on
GitHub. After installing Vagrant, initializing a vagrant environment with
"vagrant up", and several failed trials at running their imaging script, it
was clear that their code was outdated: it no longer fetches for the most
recent Tails distribution, requiring the user to download it independently.
After placing both ver. 3.10.1 and the PGP signature into their "data"
directory, the aforementioned script successfully recognizes the files and
images the Tails ISO onto the chosen volume. Before attempting to boot from
this drive, I had also attempted to install Tails using the instructions
provided by your main website. I imaged the drive multiple times, using a
different file system each attempt. Neither FAT32, macOS Extended, nor APFS
were recognized as bootable volumes by the MacBook Pro's bootloader. After
creating a custom EFI bootloader via the GitHub project, the machine
finally recognized the drive. Tails booted successfully. Tor, however,
failed to setup even after connecting to a network. The intermediate
instance also failed to install Tails to a more "permanent" drive,
displaying an error having to do with the master boot record directory -- I
couldn't attach a photo of the issue, as the boum.org domain rejected the
larger email size. I then transferred the 3.10.1 ISO from my main Mac
volume to a flash drive that I then opened in Tails. I used the Tails
installer and this ISO to image the operating system onto that flash drive
instead of cloning the intermediary. The installation completed
successfully this time around, and this second USB drive successfully
imaged Tails via cloning onto another two drives, both of which are
recognized and boot successfully from the Mac EFI.
   Some additional notes, for what they're worth: the Tails boot menu
differed between the instance that couldn't successfully clone itself and
the one that could. The former was similar to the example provided on the
Tails website, while the other was an entirely gray screen with the boot
options very offset from center. I've taken photos of both if necessary.
Additionally, the instructions at the bottom of the unsuccessful Tails
drive's boot screen which read, "Use the (up) and (down) keys to select a
boot option," or something to that effect, were buggy. What I presume were
supposed to be up and down arrows where the parentheses are in the text
above were missing, and pressing the up and down arrows made the text
disappear entirely.
   I'd be happy to provide more info about my setup and provide more
detailed steps or the photos I took if needed. Again, thanks for all the
great work you guys do! Hope this was helpful.
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[Tails-dev] Tor Browser 8.0.4 is ready for testing

2018-12-06 Thread Georg Koppen 
Hello everyone!

We are happy to announce that Tor Browser 8.0.4 is ready for testing.
Bundles can be found at

https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/8.0.4-build2/

This new Tor Browser version contains updates to Tor (0.3.4.9), OpenSSL
(1.0.2q) and other bundle components. Most importantly, however, it is
based on Firefox 60.4.0esr containing fixes to Firefox security bugs.

We backported a number of patches from our alpha series where they got
some baking time. The most important ones are

1) a defense against protocol handler enumeration which should enhance
our fingerprinting resistance,

2) enabling Stylo for macOS users by bypassing a reproducibility issue
caused by Rust compilation and

3) setting back the sandboxing level on 5 Windows (the default), after
working around some Tor Launcher interference causing a broken Tor
Browser experience.

Additionally, we ship an updated donation banner for our year-end
donation campaign.

The full changelog since 8.0.3 is:

Tor Browser 8.0.4 -- December 11 2018
 * All platforms
   * Update Firefox to 60.4.0esr
   * Update Tor to 0.3.4.9
   * Update OpenSSL to 1.0.2q
   * Update Torbutton to 2.0.9
 * Bug 28540: Use new text for 2018 donation banner
 * Bug 28515: Use en-US for english Torbutton strings
 * Translations update
   * Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2018.10.31
   * Update NoScript to 10.2.0
 * Bug 1623: Block protocol handler enumeration (backport of fix for
#680300)
 * Bug 25794: Disable pointer events
 * Bug 28608: Disable background HTTP response throttling
 * Bug 28185: Add smallerRichard to Tor Browser
 * Windows
   * Bug 26381: about:tor page does not load on first start on Windows
   * Bug 28657: Remove broken FTE bridge from Tor Browser
 * OS X
   * Bug 26263: App icon positioned incorrectly in macOS DMG installer
window
   * Bug 26475: Fix Stylo related reproducibilitiy issue
 * Linux
   * Bug 26475: Fix Stylo related reproducibilitiy issue
   * Bug 28657: Remove broken FTE bridge from Tor Browser
 * Build System
   * All Platforms
 * Bug 27218: Generate multiple Tor Browser bundles in parallel

Georg



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[Tails-dev] [Tails-news] We are accepting donations in 4 new cryptocurrencies

2018-12-06 Thread Tails - News 
Users of cryptocurrencies have been huge supporters of Tails in all our
previous donation campaigns and we are extremely thankful to them!

As part of our on-going
[donation](https://tails.boum.org/news/2018-fundraiser/index.en.html)
[campaign](https://tails.boum.org/news/achievements_in_2018/index.en.html), we
are now accepting donations in 4 new cryptocurrencies.

We chose these 4 because they are the most popular and easiest for us to
receive. We might add more cryptocurrencies in the future as they gain
momentum.

But as of now, we hope the 5 crypto and 4 legacy currencies you'll find on the
donation page will provide you with the necessary means to support us!

### Bitcoin Cash

**qrzav77wkhd942nyqvya34mya3fqxzx90ypjge0njh**

### Ethereum

**0xD6A73051933ab97C38cEFf2abB2f9E06F3a3ed78**

### Ethereum Classic

**0x86359F8b44188c105E198DdA3c0421AC60729195**

### Litecoin

**MJ1fqVucBt8YpfPiQTuwBtmLJtzhizx6pz**

[Donate](https://tails.boum.org/donate?r=cryptos)



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