From: noreply@mixmin.net
On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:18:07 -0400 (EDT), Anonymous
wrote:
>Today, we added documentation on our website to install Dangerzone
>in Tails.
>When you receive untrusted documents, for example, email
>attachments, Dangerzone allows you to convert them into safe PDFs
>before opening.
>Dangerzone https://dangerzone.rocks/ is particularly useful for
>journalists who might receive dangerous documents from anonymous
>sources or download them from the Internet.
>Dangerzone is an essential tool and is built by great people. It
>was first written by Micah Lee to protect investigative
>journalists while working at The Intercept. Dangerzone is now
>maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that
>protects public-interest journalism. Edward Snowden and Laura
>Poitras are on its Board of Directors.
>It's totally the kind of software that aligns with our mission.
>The only reason why we are not including Dangerzone in Tails by
>default is because Dangerzone is too big and not available in
>Debian.
>So, we collaborated with Alex Pyrgiotis from Freedom of the Press
>Foundation to make it as easy as possible to install Dangerzone in
>Tails as Additional Software. The setup requires using the command
>line, but, after that, Dangerzone will install automatically every
>time you start Tails.
>Dangerzone will allow more investigative journalists to use the
>safe environment that Tails provides when manipulating sensitive
>documents.
>It's also the first time that we recommend installing a 3rd party
>package that is not available in Debian. We know that a lot of
>software that would be useful for our users is not readily
>available in Debian. If this first experiment is successful, we
>might document more such packages.
>https://tails.net/news/dangerzone/index.en.html
(using Tor Browser 13.5.2)
https://dangerzone.rocks/
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>Dangerzone
>Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and
>convert them to safe PDFs.
>Download Learn More
>No Network Access
>Sandboxes don't have network access, so if a malicious document can
>compromise one, it can't phone home
>Optional OCR
>Dangerzone can optionally OCR the safe PDFs it creates, so it will have
>a text layer again
>Reduced File Size
>Dangerzone compresses the safe PDF to reduce file size
>Open Docs Safely
>After converting, Dangerzone lets you open the safe PDF in the PDF viewer
>of your choice, which allows you to open PDFs and office docs in
>Dangerzone by default so you never accidentally open a dangerous document
>Download Dangerzone 0.7.0
>How to verify
>MacOS
> Intel chip Apple Silicon chip
> Which one do I have?
>Windows
> Download for Windows
>Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint
> Install
>Fedora
> Install
>Tails
> Install
>Other Linux
> Build from Source
>Qubes OS (Beta)
> Install
>How It Works
>Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don't know
>if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside of a sandbox,
>Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn't already one), and
>then converts the PDF into raw pixel data: a huge list of of RGB color
>values for each page. Then, in a separate sandbox, Dangerzone takes this
>pixel data and converts it back into a PDF.
>Learn more
>Dangerzone is a Freedom of the Press Foundation project and is open
>source, released under the AGPLv3 license
>Dangerzone release signing key (not for communication)
>DE28 AB24 1FA4 8260 FAC9 B8BA A7C9 B385 2260 4281
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