Upgrade to Tails 4.5 to Browse Safely and Privately

Users increasingly care more about our privacy. And it is not for less, since from the first moment that we connect to the Internet we are being watched and controlled by governments and companies.

Operating systems, by default, not only do not protect our privacy, but often even collect more data about how we use the operating system and what we do with it, as it happens with Windows. This forces us that, if we want to connect to the Internet completely anonymously and without a trace, we must look for specially designed operating systems. And one of the best is Tails.

Tails is an anonymous and private operating system whose main purpose is to allow us to use a computer and connect to the Internet, without leaving the slightest trace. This distro is based on Debian and has configurations designed to leave no trace of use on the computer. It can be run in Live Mode , that is, from RAM, without copying anything to hard drives, and makes use of the Tor network to go to the Internet safely and impossible to trace.

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Being an operating system designed for security and privacy, it is vital to ensure that you are always using the latest version. Each update tends to correct detected errors and update applications and packages to the latest versions to avoid a failure that could jeopardize all our security.

Thus, following its update plans, a few hours ago the new Tails 4.5 has arrived, the new version to allow us to browse this quarantine safely and anonymously on the Internet.

What’s New in Tails 4.5

One of the main novelties of the new Tails 4.5 is that, from now on, this distro can start on computers that have Secure Boot enabled. This had long been one of the problems that most bothered users who ran it on UEFI computers with this feature and, finally, it has gone down in history.

In addition to this novelty, this new version of the anonymous operating system has also included the latest version of Tor Browser , specifically 9.0.9. This new version corrects a series of detected vulnerabilities, several of them critical, that can endanger our PC.

It has also fixed bugs in other packages on the distro, such as BlueZ and GnuTLS libraries.

Download or update

This new version of the anonymous operating system is already available for all users, and although it does not bring a lot of changes, it is recommended to update as soon as possible, since security for this type of program is critical.

We can download the latest version of Tails from the following link . We will save the ISO image to a USB memory and, when we have it ready, we can reconnect to the Internet in complete safety.

In case you already have a USB Live with Tails installed, we can update it directly to this new version. This can be done in two ways:

  • If we are using Tails 4.2 or later, we can use the updater to make the jump to the new version automatically.
  • If we have a previous version, we will have to have a second USB to create a second boot disk.

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Be that as it may, it is very important to update the new Tails 4.5 as soon as possible. Not for the novelties, which as we see are few, but to guarantee maximum security and privacy.