[tor-project] Tails report for December 2020

sajolida at pimienta.org sajolida at pimienta.org
Fri Jan 8 23:25:33 UTC 2021 

 Tails report for December, 2020 [1] 

IN MEMORIAM OF KARSTEN LOESING

We join the Tor project in mourning Karsten Loesing [2]. Our sincere
condolences to Karsten's family and colleagues. 

Those of us who were lucky enough to cross Karsten's path remember him
as a very kind, thoughtful, and smart person. 

Rest in peace, Karsten. 

RELEASES

	* 

Tails 4.14 was released on December 15 [3]. 
	* 

Tails 4.15 is scheduled for January 26 [4]. 

The following changes were introduced in Tails 4.15: 

	* 

Add support for the Ledger hardware wallets in _Electrum_. (#15353 [5]) 
	* 

Remove the _Unifont_ font. (!263 [6]) 
	* 

Fix Additional Software by updating the APT key for deb.torproject.org.
(#18042 [7]) 
	* 

Fix changing the administration password stored in the Persistent
Storage. (#18018 [8]) 
	* 

Fix opening the Persistent Storage of another Tails USB stick in the
_Files_ browser. (#18050 [9]) 
	* 

Restore automatically a _GnuPG_ public keyring from its backup when it
gets corrupt. (#17807 [10]) 

🎉 NEW CORE DEVELOPER 🎂

Today, we celebrate the arrival in our Foundations Team [11] of a new
member: boyska. His skills and experience in operating systems, software
development, and collective projects will: 

	* 

Accelerate development of new features, user experience improvements,
and bug fixes. 
	* 

Make our day-to-day maintenance work more sustainable. 

This work has no visible impact most of the time, except that Tails is
still alive after more than a decade, and here to stay! 
	* 

Decrease our reliance on a tiny number of key persons. 

This is one important step we're taking, among others, towards making
Tails a healthier project. 

> I'm boyska, a fellow who always loved computers. When I realized the profound social implications of technology, I tried to make my part: that's how I got involved with free software, security and hacking in general. A post-it note in my brain remembers me that computing should be fun, not scary.

Additionally, we would like to thank: 

	* 

the thousands of people whose donation allowed us to fund this new
position 

Please consider donating today [12] to fight surveillance and
censorship. 
	* 

the dozens of people who applied to this job offer [13] 

It's been truly heart-warming to see so many great applicants interested
in working with us. 

Welcome, boyska! :) 

CODE

	* 

We implemented a mechanism for adding a "Don't Show Again" button to
some notifications. We'll try it out in Tails 4.15 for the warning
displayed when starting Tails in a virtual machine; then we'll iterate
from there. 
	* 

We finished porting our Python code to Python 3. Yeah! 
	* 

We made plans for rewriting _Persistent Storage_ in Python, making it
compatible with Wayland, and redesigning its UX from scratch. 

DOCUMENTATION AND WEBSITE

	* 

Started rewriting /doc/about/warning: 

	* 

Samuel DiBella rewrote the section about contextual identities [14]
(#17882 [15]) 
	* 

We rewrote the sections about confirmation attacks and global
adversaries [16] (#17869 [17]) 

	* 

Added an FAQ about "Is it safe to use an older version of Tails? [18]"
(#18001 [19]) 
	* 

Improved our security [20] page and replaced "hole" by "vulnerability"
everywhere on our website, as per our style guide. (#18032 [21]) 

USER EXPERIENCE

	* 

Started analyzing the search queries on our website, following a
methodology by Susan Farrell [22]. (#11649 [23]) 
	* 

Started preparing the redesign of the Persistent Storage that we'll work
on in January. (#15572 [24]) 
	* 

Investigated what it would take to stop distributing ISO images: 

 	* #18047 [25]: Users unintentionally install ISO to USB instead of the
.img
 	* #18054 [26]: Distribute USB images by default for all virtual
machines
 	* #18055 [27]: Stop distributing ISO images

	* 

Added some depth to the buttons on our website. (#15111 [28]) 

FUNDING

GRANTS

 	* Our proposal to the UXFund to work on a replacement for Tor Launcher
was approved buy scaled down by 20%.

DONATIONS

	* 

Received 57.8kEUR from 88 donations at CCT since the beginning of the
campaign. 

It's 70% more donations, that's the important part, and 599% more money
thanks to a 50kEUR donation from some crypto trading company, that's the
big cherry on top of the cake! 
	* 

Blogged about our achievements in 2020 [29]. 

SPONSORS

	* 

Renamed "partners" as "sponsors [30]" after DeepOnion listed Tails as
their partner on their website. 

The word "partners" implies reciprocity and a deeper relationship, while
the word "sponsor" doesn't and is more accurate, honest, and common. 
	* 

Got invited to the Lifetime Raffle [31] of ProtonMail. 

OUTREACH

PAST EVENTS

 	* Tails and Tor were presented (among other tools) to journalism
students at Sciences Po Rennes [32] (Rennes, France) as part of their
digital safety lessons.

TRANSLATIONS

ALL THE WEBSITE

 	* fr: 79% (5378) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy
 	* es: 48% (3273) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
 	* it: 28% (1945) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy
 	* de: 27% (1829) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
 	* fa: 20% (1359) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy
 	* pt: 18% (1266) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy

CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE [33]

 	* es: 82% (1741) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
 	* fr: 79% (1676) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
 	* it: 54% (1151) strings translated, 20% strings fuzzy
 	* de: 44% (935) strings translated, 24% strings fuzzy
 	* pt: 38% (818) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
 	* fa: 19% (407) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy

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

 	* zh_TW: 21% (451) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
 	* zh: 10% (218) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
 	* tr: 7% (155) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy
 	* ca: 7% (153) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
 	* ru: 7% (152) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy
 	* pl: 7% (150) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
 	* ar: 7% (146) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
 	* id: 5% (115) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
 	* sr_Latn: 4% (93) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy

METRICS

 	* Tails has been started more than 978 192 times this month. This
makes 31 554 boots a day on average.

How do we know this? [34] 

 

Links:
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[1]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/news/report_2020_12.html
[2] https://blog.torproject.org/in-memoriam-of-karsten-loesing
[3]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/news/version_4.14.html
[4]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/contribute/calendar.html
[5] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15353
[6] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/263
[7] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18042
[8] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18018
[9] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18050
[10] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17807
[11]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/contribute/working_together/roles/foundations_team.html
[12] file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/donate.html
[13]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/jobs/Linux_generalist.html
[14]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/doc/about/warning.html#identities
[15] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17882
[16]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/doc/about/warning.html#correlation
[17] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17869
[18]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/support/faq.html#older-version
[19] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18001
[20] file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/security.html
[21] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18032
[22] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/search-log-analysis/
[23] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/11649
[24] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15572
[25] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18047
[26] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18054
[27] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18055
[28] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15111
[29]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/news/achievements_in_2020.html
[30] file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/sponsors.html
[31] https://protonmail.com/blog/lifetime-account-auction-2020/
[32] http://www.sciencespo-rennes.fr/en/
[33]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt
[34]
file:///home/amnesia/Persistent/Tor%20Browser/master/support/faq.html#boot-statistics
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