The monthly release of TAILS, obviously the last one for 2020, has been published today, and is available for download.
TAILS is an operating system (OS), created and optimized for user's privacy and anonymity. For me this is by far the easiest way to do various cryptocurrency related things on a regular, daily use windows computer. Other wise the danger and risk for hacker attacks is simply to high and unacceptable. By simple booting from USB flash or DVD, I can eliminate those windows specific dangers in a few mouse clicks
Besides the numerous security fixes, in this release 4.14 we see also few significant updates, changes and additions.
From all of them, personally to me the biggest news is adding support for the Ledger hardware wallets (in Electrum).
THIS IS BIG !
I have been waiting for this feature for years ! Seems it's finally there.
(I still have not yet tried this feature myself, been to busy, hopefully will do tomorrow)
TAILS was launched in 2009, but most famous and known became after 4-5 years, when Edward Snowden published about his experience of TAILS use for secure communications with journalists, while leaking NSA secrets.
Tails OS is a Linux DEBIAN based 64 bit operating system, operates solely in a computer's RAM, does not touch your HDD and/or LAN devices (unless you deliberately want this), and is running all your network traffic through the TOR.
TAILS does not leave footprints on our PC's disks and peripherals, and greatly reduces the stress when you have to manage your private keys, mnemonic seeds or passwords.
It's Encrypted Persistent Storage is a great and secure way to save your sensitive materials with top grade encryption.
TAILS can be also very very useful, when you need to do some sensitive things in an unsafe or uncertain environment (hotels, airport, restaurants, conferences, business trips). The list of possible such circumstances is endless.
