[tor-project] Tails report for June 2020

Mon Jul 13 21:53:22 UTC 2020

Tails report for June, 2020 [1] 

RELEASES

Tails 4.7 was released on June 2 [2]: 

	* 

Make the installation of Additional Software more robust. (#17278 [3]) 
	* 

Clarify the error message when entering an incorrect password to unlock
a VeraCrypt volume: _Wrong passphrase or parameters_ instead of _Error
unlocking volume_. (#17668 [4]) 
	* 

Clean up confusing comments in /etc/tor/torrc. (#17706 [5]) 

Tails 4.8 was released on June 30 [6]: 

	* 

We disabled the _Unsafe Browser_ by default and clarified that the
_Unsafe Browser_ can be used to deanonymize you [7]. 
	* 

We added a new feature of the Persistent Storage to save the settings
from the Welcome Screen. 

This feature is beta and only the additional setting to enable the
_Unsafe Browser_ is made persistent. The other settings (language,
keyboard, and other additional settings) will be made persistent in
Tails 4.9 (July 28). 
	* 

Fix the _Find in page_ feature of _Thunderbird_. (#17328 [8]) 
	* 

Fix shutting down automatically the laptop when resuming from suspend
with the Tails USB stick removed. (#16787 [9]) 
	* 

Notify always when MAC address spoofing [10] fails and the network
interface is disabled. (#17779 [11]) 
	* 

Fix the import of OpenPGP public keys in binary format (non armored)
from the _Files_ browser. 

Tails 4.9 is scheduled for July 28 [12]. 

CODE

	* 

Adapted our test suite to our new homepage and to GitLab. (#17718 [13],
#17719 [14]) 
	* 

Upgraded to tor 0.4.3. (#17741 [15]) 
	* 

Automated post-release GitLab updates with gitlab-triage [16]. (#17589
[17], !36 [18]) 

DOCUMENTATION AND WEBSITE

	* 

@syster added a favicon to our website. (!37 [19]) 
	* 

Documented the letterboxing feature of _Tor Browser_ [20]. (#17227 [21])

	* 

Interviewed 4 more candidates to the Technical Writer job offer [22]. 
	* 

Added a shortcut on top of the cloning instructions [23] for people who
are already in Tails. 
	* 

Reported a bug upstream to Etcher [24] about Windows manipulating the
system partition, leading to a failed verification. (#17634 [25]) 

HOT TOPICS ON OUR HELP DESK

	* 

A lot of people complained about having trouble starting Tails with
[AMD/ATI] Renoir GPUs, but it seems that a kernel update fixed that
problem in Tails 4.8 [26]. 
	* 

Some MacBook users reported that Tails fails to boot with some recent
MacBooks [27]. A workaround was proposed but people were then affected
by their key combinations [28] or mouse and keyboard [29] not being
supported by GRUB. 
	* 

There were still a couple of users reporting having problems to import
public PGP keys in Seahorse [30]. 

INFRASTRUCTURE

	* 

Decommissioned the system that used to host our Redmine. 
	* 

Made it possible for core community members to propose changes to our
GitLab configuration with a merge request. (#17753 [31]) 

FUNDING

 	* Submitted a full proposal to the OTF Core Infrastructure Fund [32]
to improve the user experience of connecting to Tor [33] and using Tails
to circumvent censorship.

OUTREACH

Published leaflets and their source on the website: 

 	* tails-leaflet-english.pdf [34]
 	* tails-leaflet-french.pdf [35]
 	* tails-leaflet-italian.pdf [36]
 	* tails-leaflet-portuguese.pdf [37]
 	* tails-leaflet-spanish.pdf [38]

PAST EVENTS

 	* El Barracon Digital from El Progreso, Honduras, organized an
international online webinar on Tails: Privacidad y Anonimato Con Tails
[39].

UPCOMING EVENTS

 	* El Rancho Electronico is organizing 2 online workshops about Tails
[40] on July 14 and July 21.

PRESS AND TESTIMONIALS

	* 

2020-06-23: Privacy-Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI
Hacked it [41] by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard. 
	* 

2020-06-10: Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator [42] by
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard. 

TRANSLATIONS

ALL THE WEBSITE

 	* fr: 84% (5415) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
 	* es: 47% (3072) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
 	* de: 30% (1988) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy
 	* it: 28% (1808) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
 	* fa: 22% (1474) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy
 	* pt: 22% (1418) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy

CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE [43]

 	* fr: 83% (1709) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
 	* es: 77% (1585) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
 	* it: 50% (1043) strings translated, 20% strings fuzzy
 	* de: 50% (1041) strings translated, 21% strings fuzzy
 	* pt: 39% (815) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
 	* fa: 20% (415) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy

CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE FOR LANGUAGES NOT ACTIVATED ON THE WEBSITE YET

 	* zh_TW: 25% (447) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy
 	* zh: 12% (224) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
 	* ru: 8% (160) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
 	* pl: 8% (149) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
 	* tr: 8% (148) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
 	* ar: 7% (132) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
 	* ca: 7% (131) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
 	* id: 5% (99) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy
 	* sr_Latn: 4% (80) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy

METRICS

 	* Tails has been started more than 926 605 times this month. This
makes 30 887 boots a day on average.

How do we know this? [44] 

Links:
------
[1] https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2020_06/
[2] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.7/index.en.html
[3] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17278
[4] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17668
[5] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17706
[6] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.8/index.en.html
[7]
https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/unsafe_browser/index.en.html#security
[8] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17328
[9] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/16787
[10]
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing/index.en.html
[11] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17779
[12] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/
[13] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17718
[14] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17719
[15] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17741
[16] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-triage
[17] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17589
[18] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/36
[19] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/37
[20]
https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/index.en.html#letterboxing
[21] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17227
[22] https://tails.boum.org/jobs/technical_writer/
[23] https://tails.boum.org/install/clone/index.en.html
[24] https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3197
[25] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17634
[26]
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17759#note_152260
[27] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17775
[28] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17791
[29] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/13576
[30] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17183
[31] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17753
[32] https://www.opentech.fund/funds/core-infrastructure-fund/
[33] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/network_connection/
[34]
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/leaflets/tails-leaflet-english.pdf
[35]
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/leaflets/tails-leaflet-french.pdf
[36]
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/leaflets/tails-leaflet-italian.pdf
[37]
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/leaflets/tails-leaflet-portuguese.pdf
[38]
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/leaflets/tails-leaflet-spanish.pdf
[39]
https://barracondigital.org/webinar-internacional-privacidad-y-anonimato-con-tails/
[40]
https://ranchoelectronico.org/taller-tails-de-nuevo-pero-ahora-en-linea/
[41]
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyz3jy/privacy-focused-os-tails-wants-to-know-how-facebook-and-the-fbi-hacked-it
[42]
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-predator-buster-hernandez
[43] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt
[44] https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html#boot_statistics
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