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
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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
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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
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
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