[[!meta title="Media appearances in 2014"]]

* 2014-12-28: Martin Untersinger considers Tails as a bulletproof tool
  against NSA spying in "[Les énormes progrès de la NSA pour défaire
  la sécurité sur Internet](http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/12/28/les-enormes-progres-de-la-nsa-pour-defaire-la-securite-sur-internet_4546843_4408996.html)" (in French).

* 2014-12-24: Andy Greenberg from Wired calls for donations to Tails in
  "[8 Free Privacy Programs Worth Your Year-End Donations](http://www.wired.com/2014/12/privacy-donations/)":
  "Tails has received little mainstream support and may be the security
  software most in need of users’ donations".

* 2014-11-20: Amaelle Guiton writes about Tails in "[Tails, l'outil
  détesté par la NSA, qui veut démocratiser l'anonymat en
  ligne](http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/11/20/tails-l-outil-deteste-par-la-nsa-qui-veut-democratiser-l-anonymat-en-ligne_4514650_4408996.html)"
  (in French), and gives a detailed transcript of an interview she made
  with some of us in "[Tails raconté par ceux qui le
  construisent](https://www.techn0polis.net/2014/11/19/tails-raconte-par-ceux-qui-le-construisent/)"
  (in French as well).

* 2014-11-13: Thorin Klosowski from lifehacker.com [compares Linux Security
  Distros: Tails vs. Kali vs. Qubes](http://lifehacker.com/linux-security-distros-compared-tails-vs-kali-vs-qub-1658139404).

* 2014-11-05: Tails 1.2 is featured on LinuxFr in "[Tails 1.2, une
  distribution pour votre
  anonymat](http://linuxfr.org/news/tails-1-2-une-distribution-pour-votre-anonymat)"
  (in French).

* 2014-10-29: In "[The 7 Privacy Tools Essential to Making Snowden
  Documentary
  CITIZENFOUR](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/7-privacy-tools-essential-making-citizenfour),
  the Electronic Fountier Foundation says that "one of the most robust
  ways of using the Tor network is through a dedicated operating system
  that enforces strong privacy" like Tails.

* 2014-10-28: In "[Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past
  Incredible Danger. Now I Teach
  You.](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/)",
  Micah Lee, from The Intercept, gives many details on how Tails helped
  Snowden, Poitras, and Gleenwald start working together.

* 2014-10-16: According to
  [an article in
  Wired](http://www.wired.com/2014/10/laura-poitras-crypto-tools-made-snowden-film-possible/),
  in the closing credits of Citizenfour, Poitras took the unusual step
  of adding an acknowledgment of the free software projects that made
  the film possible: The roll call includes the anonymity software Tor,
  the Tor-based operating system Tails, GPG encryption, Off-The-Record
  (OTR) encrypted instant messaging, hard disk encryption software
  Truecrypt, and Linux.

* 2014-07-26: [Tails 1.1 is announced](http://linuxfr.org/news/tails-1-1-est-disponible), in French,
  in an article by pamputt on LinuxFr

* 2014-07: I2P bug and zero-days buzz:
  - 2014-07-21: Exodus Intelligence [tweets about multiple RCE/de-anonymization
    zero-days](https://twitter.com/ExodusIntel/status/491247299054428160) on the
    day before Tails 1.1 is released.
  - Several news websites relay that information before the details of the
    vulnerability are disclosed:
    - [Exploit Dealer: Snowden's Favorite OS Tails Has Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
      Lurking
      Inside](http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2014/07/21/exploit-dealer-snowdens-favourite-os-tails-has-zero-day-vulnerabilities-lurking-inside/)
      by Thomas Brewster on Forbes.
    - [Don't look, Snowden: Security biz chases Tails with zero-day flaws
      alert](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/21/security_researchers_chase_tails_with_zeroday_flaw_disclosure/)
      by Iain Thomson on The Register.
    - [The world's most secure OS may have a serious
      problem](http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5927917/the-worlds-most-secure-os-may-have-a-serious-problem)
      by Russell Brandom on The Verge
  - 2014-07-23: We made our users [[aware of that
    process|news/On_0days_exploits_and_disclosure]].
  - 2014-07-23: Exodus Intelligence publishes [Silver Bullets and Fairy
    Tails](http://blog.exodusintel.com/2014/07/23/silverbullets_and_fairytails/)
    to explain the vulnerability.
  - 2014-07-25: We publish a [[security
    advisory|security/Security_hole_in_I2P_0.9.13]] explaining the scope of the
    problem, and temporary solutions.

* 2014-07-08: In the [July 8th Keiser Report on RT](http://rt.com/shows/keiser-report/170908-episode-max-keiser-624/).
  The Tails related part of the Keiser Report starts at 15'40".

* 2014-07-03: Tails above the Rest:
  [Installation](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tails-above-rest-installation),
  [Part II](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tails-above-rest-part-ii),
  [Part III](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tails-above-rest-part-iii) by Kyle Rankin in the Linux Journal.

* 2014-07-03: Some articles on Tails users being targeted by NSA XKeyscore:
  - In [NSA targets the privacy-conscious](http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html)
    by J. Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. Kabisch, L. Kampf, L. Ryge.
  - In [Von der NSA als Extremist gebrandmarkt](http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/nsa-xkeyscore-100.html)
    by  Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz (in German).
  - In [If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance](http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the-n.html)
    by Cory Doctorow.
  - In [TOR, logiciel-clé de protection de la vie privée, dans le viseur de la NSA](http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/07/03/un-logiciel-cle-de-protection-de-la-vie-privee-dans-le-viseur-de-la-nsa_4450718_4408996.html)
    by Martin Untersinger on LeMonde.fr (in French).

* 2014-06-25: [Dai segreti di Snowden ai social: il raduno italiano degli hacker](http://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/notizie/cronaca/2014/25-giugno-2014/dai-segreti-snowden-social-raduno-italiano-hacker-223459532934.shtml) by Andrea Rinaldi, in Corriere di Bologna (in Italian).

* 2014-06-30: [Tails, il sistema operativo incognito che frega l'NSA](http://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2014/04/15/tails-sistema-operativo-incognito/) by Carola Frediani, in Wired.it (in Italian).

* 2014: late April and early May, many press articles covered the
  Tails 1.0 release, including:
  - In [TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes
    1.0](http://boingboing.net/2014/04/30/tails-snowdens-favorite-ano.html), Cory
    Doctorow writes "Effectively, this is the ParanoidLinux I fictionalized in my
    novel Little Brother."
  - [Tails reaches
    1.0](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/596765/380d4e75b17ea491/) by Nathan
    Willis in Linux Weekly News.
  - [Anonymous OS reportedly used by Snowden reaches version
    1.0](http://www.cnet.com/news/anonymous-os-reportedly-favored-by-nsa-whistle-blower-edward-snowden-reaches-version-1-0/)
    by Steven Musil in CNET.
  - [Anonymisierungs-OS Tails wird
    erwachsen](http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Anonymisierungs-OS-Tails-wird-erwachsen-2180167.html)
    in heise Security (in German).
  - [Secure OS Tails Emerges From
    Beta](http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457452,00.asp) by
    David Murphy in PCMAG.
  - [Edward Snowden's OS of choice, the Linux-based Tails,
    is now out of
    beta](http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/01/tails-linux-os-version1-0/)
    by Steve Dent in Engadget.
  - [Tails 1.0: Sicherheit und
    Anonymität](http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/21038/tails-10-sicherheit-und-anonymitaet.html)
    by Ferdinand Thommes in PRO-LINUX.DE (in German).
  - [Tails, l'OS dédié à la confidentialité, passe en
    version
    1.0](http://www.numerama.com/magazine/29251-tails-l-os-dedie-a-la-confidentialite-passe-en-version-10.html)
    by Julien L. in Numerama (in French).
  - [Anonymous Linux Distribution TAILS Reaches Release Version
    1.0](http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/tails-anonymous-linux-distribution-reaches-release-version-1-0-144823?ModPagespeed=noscript)
    by Max Smolaks in TechWeek Europe.
  - [Snowden's Beloved Tails OS Reaches v1.0
    Milestone](http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Snowdens-Beloved-Tails-OS-Reaches-v10-Milestone-80386.html)
    by Richard Adhikari in LinuxInsider.
  - [Tails 1.0 – La distrib sécurisée sort enfin en version stable](http://korben.info/tails-1-0.html)
    by Korben (in French).

* 2014-04-30: [Tails, le système qui voulait vous rendre vraiment
  anonyme](http://www.clubic.com/antivirus-securite-informatique/virus-hacker-piratage/anonyme-internet/actualite-699478-tails-systeme-voulait-surfer-facon-anonyme.html)
  by Alexandre Laurent, in Clubic (in French).

* 2014-04-29: [This is the most secure computer you’ll ever
  own](http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/5664884/this-is-the-most-secure-computer-you-ll-ever-own)
  by Russell Brandom, in The Verge.

* 2014-04-29: [How to be secure on the Internet, really
  secure](http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-be-secure-on-the-internet-really-secure)
  by Victoria Wagner Ross, in Examiner.com.

* 2014-04-29: [Tuck in Your Tails and Hide from Big
  Brother](http://techgage.com/news/tuck-in-your-tails-and-hide-from-big-brother/)
  by Stetson Smith, in Techgage.

* 2014-04-28: [Cómo instalar y usar Tails, la distribución Linux para navegar
  de manera
  anónima](http://www.eldiario.es/turing/vigilancia_y_privacidad/Guia-practica-Tails-distribucion-Linux_0_253374668.html)
  by Juan Jesús Velasco in El Diario.

* 2014-04-23: Amaelle Guiton mentions Tails in the article [Chiffrer le Net pour
  retrouver notre vie privée en ligne: une bonne solution qui pose des
  problèmes](http://www.slate.fr/monde/86275/cyberespace-cypherspace-crypter-chiffrement-internet)
  in Slate (in French).

* 2014-04-22: golem.de publishes
  [Anonymisierung -- Mit Tails in den
  Datenuntergrund](http://www.golem.de/news/anonymisierung-mit-tails-in-den-datenuntergrund-1404-105944.html)
  (in German), by Jörg Thoma.

* 2014-04-17: Bruce Schneier writes "Nice article on the Tails
  stateless operating system. I use it." [in a blog
  post](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/tails.html).

* 2014-04-16: [Leave no trace: Tips to cover your digital footprint
  and reclaim your
  privacy](http://www.pcworld.com/article/2143846/leave-no-trace-tips-to-cover-your-digital-footprint-and-reclaim-your-privacy.html)
  by Alex Castle in PCWorld.

* 2014-04-16: [Tails, il sistema operativo di Edward
  Snowden](http://www.webnews.it/2014/04/16/tails-il-sistema-operativo-di-edward-snowden/?ref=post)
  by Luca Colantuoni in Webnews.it.

* 2014-04-16: In [Pourquoi Edward Snowden a utilisé Tails Linux pour
  organiser sa
  fuite](http://www.01net.com/editorial/618336/pourquoi-edward-snowden-a-utilise-tails-linux-pour-organiser-sa-fuite/)
  (in French) published on the 01net net-zine, Gilbert Kallenborn
  reports about use of Tails by Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras et al.

* 2014-04-15: [Tails, il sistema operativo incognito che frega
  l’NSA](http://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2014/04/15/tails-sistema-operativo-incognito/)
  by Carola Frediani, in Wired.it.

* 2014-04-15: The recent Wired article [is
  relayed](http://yro-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/04/15/1940240/snowden-used-the-linux-distro-designed-for-internet-anonymity)
  on Slashdot homepage.

* 2014-04-15: ["Tails": Wie Snowden seine Kommunikation vor der NSA
  versteckt](http://derstandard.at/1397520636954/Tails-Wie-Snowden-seine-Kommunikation-vor-der-NSA-versteckt),
  in derStandart.at

* 2014-04-14: In the [press
  conference](http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/4/11/video_glenn_greenwald_laura_poitras_q)
  she held after winning a Polk Award for her reporting on Edward Snowden and
  the NSA, Laura Poitras said "We just published a blog about a tool that's
  called Tails, which is a operating system that runs on either USB stick or SD
  disc, that is a sort of all-in-one encryption tool that you can use for PGP
  and encryption. And it's just really secure. [...] So, it's a really important
  tool for journalists."

* 2014-04-14: [Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward
  Snowden Used to Evade the NSA](http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails/)
  by Klint Finley, in Wired.

* 2014-04-02: In [Help Support the Little-Known Privacy Tool That Has
  Been Critical to Journalists Reporting on the
  NSA](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/help-support-little-known-privacy-tool-has-been-critical-journalists-reporting-nsa)
  by Trevor Timm:
  - Laura Poitras says: "I've been reluctant to go into details about
    the different steps I took to communicate securely with Snowden to
    avoid those methods being targeted. Now that Tails gives a green
    light, I can say it has been an essential tool for reporting the
    NSA story. It is an all-in-one secure digital communication system
    (GPG email, OTR chat, Tor web browser, encrypted storage) that is
    small enough to swallow. I'm very thankful to the Tails developers
    for building this tool."
  - Glenn Greenwald says: "Tails have been vital to my ability to work
    securely on the NSA story. The more I've come to learn about
    communications security, the more central Tails has become to
    my approach."
  - Barton Gellman says: "Privacy and encryption work, but it's too
    easy to make a mistake that exposes you. Tails puts the essential
    tools in one place, with a design that makes it hard to screw them
    up. I could not have talked to Edward Snowden without this kind of
    protection. I wish I'd had it years ago."

* 2014-03-17: In [Index Freedom of Expression Awards: Digital activism
  nominee
  Tails](http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/03/index-freedom-expression-awards-digital-activism-nominee-tails/),
  Alice Kirkland interviews the Tails project about our nomination for
  the *Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Awards*.

* 2014-03-13: In his [Les 7 clés pour protéger ses
  communications](http://www.tdg.ch/high-tech/web/Les-7-cles-pour-proteger-ses-communications/story/25588689)
  article (in French) published by the *Tribune de Genève*, Simon Koch
  recommends using Tails.

* 2014-03-12: In his [Happy 25th Birthday World Wide Web - Let's Not
  Destroy
  It](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mike-harris/world-wide-web_b_4947687.html?utm_hp_ref=uk)
  article published by the Huffington Post, Mike Harris writes that
  "Increasing numbers of activists are using high-tech tools such as
  Tor or Tails to encrpyt their internet browsing and email".

* 2014-03-12: In his [US and UK Spy Agencies Are "Enemies of the
  Internet"](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/us-and-uk-spy-agencies-are-enemies-of-the-internet)
  article, published in the Motherboard section of the Vice network,
  Joseph Cox covers Reporters Without Borders' [latest
  report](https://en.rsf.org/enemies-of-the-internet-2014-11-03-2014,45985.html),
  and writes "If you're a journalist working on anything more
  sensitive than London Fashion Week or League 2 football, you might
  want to consider using the Linux-based 'Tails' operating
  system too."

* 2014-03-08: [Reporters Without Borders](http://en.rsf.org/)'s
  Grégoire Pouget blogs about Tails: [FIC 2014 : Comment être
  réellement anonyme sur
  Internet](http://blog.barbayellow.com/2014/03/08/fic-2014-comment-etre-reellement-anonyme-sur-internet/)
  (in French).

* 2014-03-04: Tails
  [wins](https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/441043400708857856) the
  [2014 Access Innovation Prize](https://www.accessnow.org/prize),
  that was focused this year on Endpoint Security.

* 2014-03-03: In the March edition of the Linux Journal, that
  [celebrates 20 years of this
  journal](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/march-2014-issue-linux-journal-20-years-linux-journal),
  Kyle demonstrates Tails.

* 2014-02-27: The Daily Dot announced the experiments on porting Tails to mobile
  devices in "[Tor takes anonymity mobile with new smartphone
  OS](http://www.dailydot.com/technology/tor-anonymous-os-tails-freitas/)" and
  "[Beta testing for Tor's anonymous mobile OS begins this
  spring](http://www.dailydot.com/technology/tor-anonymous-mobile-os-tails/)".
  Note that this is not an official project of Tails, see the homepage of the
  [Tomy Detachable Secure Mobile
  System](https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/libro/wiki/Tomy_Detachable_Secure_Mobile_System)
  project for more info.

* 2014-02-27: In his article "[Why It’s Vital For Users to Fund Open-Source
  Encryption
  Tools](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/02/why-its-vital-public-fund-open-source-encryption-tools)"
  Trevor Timm from Freedom of the Press Foundation explains that Tails « has
  been vital for most, if not all, of the NSA journalists. [...] Its prime use
  case is journalists trying to communicate or work in environments in which
  they may normally be at risk or compromised. The NSA stories have been the
  biggest story in journalism in the past decade, yet the tool the reporters
  rely on is incredibly underfunded, is maintained by only a handful of
  developers, and operates on a shoestring budget. »

* 2014-02-07: In his review of [uVirtus](http://uvirtus.org), Kheops, from
  Telecomix concludes that « Users should prefer Tails and other mature secure
  live distributions (such as IprediaOS, Liberté Linux, Privatix and Whonix)
  over uVirtus since they provide a real safety improvement to the user. For any
  activity that does not entail transferring large quantities of data (such as
  video files), there is no strong reason to prefer uVirtus over any of these. »

* 2014-01-14: On Linux.com, Carla Schroder [picks
  Tails](https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/752221-the-top-7-best-linux-distros-for-2014/)
  as the best Linux distribution for 2014 in the "Best Fighting the
  Man Distro" category.

* 2014-01-07: [A RAT in the Registry: The Case for Martus on
  TAILS](http://benetech.org/2014/01/07/a-rat-in-the-registry-the-case-for-martus-on-tails/)
  explains how Benetech have selected TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito
  Live System) to be the default environment for their use of Martus while
  defending Tibetan human rights defenders against targeted malware attacks.

* 2014-01: "Tails: The Amnesiac Incognito Live System – Privacy for
  Anyone Anywhere", by Russ McRee, in this month's issue of the
  [Information Systems Security Association
  Journal](http://www.issa.org/?page=ISSAJournal).
