1 [[!meta title="Media appearances in 2013"]]
3 * 2013-12: Bruce Schneier
4 [answered](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1r8ibh/iama_security_technologist_and_author_bruce/cdknf7a/)
5 to someone asking him what Linux distribution is its favorite: "I don't
6 use Linux. (Shhh. Don't tell anyone.) Although I have started using Tails".
8 * 2013-12-12: In [A conversation with Bruce
9 Schneier](https://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/bruce-schneier-and-eben-moglen-2.html),
10 as part of the "Snowden, the NSA and free software" cycle at
11 Columbia Law School NYC, Bruce Schneier says:
12 - "I think most of the public domain privacy tools are going to be
13 safe, yes. I think GPG is going to be safe. I think OTR is going
14 to be safe. I think that Tails is going to be safe. I do think
15 that these systems, because they were not -- you know, the NSA has
16 a big lever when a tool is written closed-source by a for-profit
17 corporation. There are levers they have that they don't have in
18 the open source international, altruistic community. And these are
19 generally written by crypto-paranoids, they're pretty well
20 designed. We make mistakes, but we find them and we correct them,
21 and we're getting good at that. I think that if the NSA is going
22 after these tools, they're going after implementations."
23 - "What do I trust? I trust, I trust Tails, I trust GPG [...]"
24 - "We can make it harder, we can make it more expensive, we can make
25 it more risky. And yes, every time we do something to increase one
26 of those, we're making ourselves safer. [...] There are tools we
27 are deploying in countries all over the world, that are keeping
28 people alive. Tor is one of them. I mean, Tor saves lives. [...]
29 And every time you use Tor [...] provides cover for everyone else
32 * 2013-11-12: In its review "[Which Linux distro is best for protecting your
33 privacy?](http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/which-linux-distro-is-best-for-protecting-your-privacy--1192771)",
34 techrada.com prefers Tails over 4 other distributions: "The main advantages of
35 Tails are its readiness for USB installation and the complete nature of its
36 desktop and its documentation. The Tails system menu also contains enough
37 applications to make you do almost everything you may need without rebooting.
38 The documentation, while not interesting as the one for Whonix, is more than
39 adequate to help even Linux beginners. Yay for Tails, then!"
41 * 2013-11: The German-speaking ADMIN magazine [reviews
42 Tails](http://www.admin-magazin.de/Das-Heft/2013/11/Tails-0.20).
44 * 2013-10 : (in French) Framablog, [Le chiffrement, maintenant](https://framablog.org/2013/10/19/le-chiffrement-maintenant-compil), contains a whole chapter about Tails.
46 * 2013-10 : SecureDrop, "Aaron Swartz’s unfinished whistleblowing platform" promotes Tails in both [user manual](https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/blob/master/docs/user_manual.md) and [security audit](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CSE-13-08-02.PDF). via [Korben.info](http://korben.info/securedrop-aaron-swartz.html)
48 * 2013-10: The [occasional issue n°8 of
49 MISC](http://boutique.ed-diamond.com/misc-hors-series/500-mischs8.html)
50 magazine is dedicated to privacy topics. Tails is mentioned
53 * 2013-10-15: [CRYPTO-GRAM, October 15, 2013](https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2013/1015.html)
54 Bruce Schneier: "One thing I didn't do, although it's worth considering, is
55 use a stateless operating system like Tails. You can configure Tails with a
56 persistent volume to save your data, but no operating system changes are ever
57 saved. Booting Tails from a read-only DVD -- you can keep your data on an
58 encrypted USB stick -- is even more secure. Of course, this is not foolproof,
59 but it greatly reduces the potential avenues for attack."
61 * 2013-10-04: In [Tor: 'The king of high-secure, low-latency anonymity'](https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-high-secure-internet-anonymity),
62 page 7. NSA: "[Tails adds] severe CNE misery to equation."
64 * 2013-09-12: In [Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and
66 Services](http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/inside-the-effort-to-crowdfund-nsa-proof-email-and-chat-services)
67 by DJ Pangburn, Riseup birds write (about the TBB) "Combined with
68 the TAILS project, which Riseup supports, there is nothing better."
70 * 2013-09-05: In [How to remain secure against NSA
71 surveillance](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance),
72 Bruce Schneier wrote: "Since I started working with Snowden's
73 documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR,
74 TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to
77 * 2013-08-13: (in French) [Tails en version 0.20](https://linuxfr.org/news/tails-en-version-0-20) on LinuxFR
79 * 2013-08-12: [Anonym und sicher Surfen mit
80 Tails](http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/2013/09/Anonym-und-sicher-Surfen-mit-Tails),
81 in the September edition of the
82 [LinuxUser](http://www.linux-user.de/) magazine, that includes Tails
83 on the accompanying DVD.
85 * 2013-08-11: In their [DeadDrop/StrongBox Security
86 Assessment](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CSE-13-08-02.PDF),
87 a research group (Alexei Czeskis, David Mah, Omar Sandoval, Ian
88 Smith, Karl Koscher, Jacob Appelbaum, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Bruce
89 Schneier) suggests inserting Tails in the loop of the
90 DeadDrop/StrongBox system. They also write: "We believe that sources
91 should be adviced to use the Tails LiveCD. This provides better
92 anonymity and is easier to use than the Tor Browser bundle."
94 * 2013-07-02: [Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance](https://freedom.press/news/encryption-works-how-to-protect-your-privacy-and-your-sources-in-the-age-of-nsa-surveillance/)
95 by Micah Lee on Freedom of the Press Foundation
97 * 2013-05-21: [Tails 0.18 can install packages on the
98 fly](http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Tails-0-18-can-install-packages-on-the-fly-1866479.html)
101 * 2013-01-31: [Comment (ne pas) être
102 (cyber)espionné ?](http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/01/31/comment-ne-pas-etre-espionne/)
103 by Jean-Marc Manach in "BUG BROTHER -- Qui surveillera les surveillants ?"
105 * 2013-01-29: Tails is
106 [documented](https://www.wefightcensorship.org/article/tails-amnesic-incognito-live-systemhtml.html)
107 in Reporters Without Borders' [Online Survival Kit](https://www.wefightcensorship.org/online-survival-kithtml.html)
109 * 2013-01-14: [DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 490](https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130114#released)