Those two changes seem particularly important:<p>* Tails 3.0 works on 64-bit computers only and not on 32-bit computers anymore. Dropping hardware support, even for a small portion of our user base, is always a hard decision to make but being 64-bit only has important security and reliability benefits. For example, to protect against some types of security exploits, support for the NX bit is compulsory and most binaries are hardened with PIE which allows ASLR.<p>* Update Tor Browser to 7.0 (based on Firefox 52 ESR) which is multiprocess and paves the way to content sandboxing. This should make it harder to exploit security vulnerabilities in the browser.<p>What do you guys think about dropping 32-bit?
This is great. I very much appreciate the work done by the contributors to the Tails project and I trust & agree with their technical decisions for this release. As Internet keeps getting more monitored, Tails serves as an important tool in maintaining the balance of privacy and allowing for the anonymous sharing of information going forward. Big thanks to the Tails team.
<a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.0/index.en.html#news-version-3.0.check" rel="nofollow">https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.0/index.en.html#news-v...</a> says you should run "uname -m" under Tails to see if "your computer is 64-bit". How does that work? Does Tails automatically choose kernel version appropriate for your hardware, or what?
I recently started using Tails so for security reasons cough<i>backdoor</i>windows<i>ios</i>cough,.. and found that it worked surprisely well. It has a disk utility, liber office, and the drivers even worked for my wireless dongle! Kudos to the Tails team!
<a href="https://webconverger.com/" rel="nofollow">https://webconverger.com/</a> is still 32 bit and keeps a clean slate.