Best FreeSoftware
30 27 Nov-10 Dec2019
Ifyou’reconcernedaboutyourprivacy,then
Tails–whichstandsforTheAmnesiacIncognito
LiveSystem–istheoperatingsystemyouneed
toputyourmindatease.It’saliveLinuxOSthat
youcanbootintofromaDVD,USBmemory
stickorSDmemorycard.TheOScanhidewho
andwhereyouare,encryptyourfiles,emails
andinstantmessagingchats,andprotectyou
frommalwarethreats.Thisnewbuildisbased
onDebian10(Buster)andincludesupdated
versionsofthesoftwarebundledinTails,
includingTorBrowser9(seeabove).The
WelcometoTailsgreeterhasbeenupdated,
andtherehavebeenanumberofperformance
andusabilityimprovementsmade,too.
BleachBitisanexcellentopen-sourcesystem
cleanerthatremovesjunkfilesfromyourPC,
thusfreeing upspace,andprotectsyour
privacybysecurelyshreddingpersonalfiles
sotheycan’tberecovered.It’s veryeasyto
use–allyou have todoisselecttheareasyou
wanttotarget,clickthePreviewbuttontosee
theresultsandthenclickCleantoremovethe
selecteditems.
Thisreleasegivestheinterfaceamajor
makeover–includinganoptional darkmode
–andprovidesimprovedperformance,more
thoroughcleaningandgreaterreliability.
Seeourworkshoponpage 57 tofind out
howtouseBleachBit3.
BasedonthesameengineasMozillaFirefox,
thissecurebrowserusestheTornetworkto
protectyourbrowsinganddisguiseyour
location.Italsocomeswithanumberof
privacy-focusedadd-ons,andyoucanadjust
thesecuritylevelofthesoftware,choosingfrom
Standard,SaferandSafest.Thenewversion
featuresimportantsecurityupdatestothe
browserengine(it’sbasedonFirefox 6 8ESR-
ExtendedSupportRelease),andmakesusing
Tormoreintuitive.TheTorbuttonandTor
Launcherextensionshavebeenintegratedinto
thebrowser,andthesoftwarenowusesa
techniquecalledLetterboxingtohidethesizeof
yourscreendimensionsfromsnoopers.
SECUREWEBBROWSER
TorBrowser9
http://www.torproject.org
Minrequirements:Windows 7 /8.1/ 10 ,macOS
orLinux Filesize: 6 3.7MB
PRIVACYOS
Tails4
tails.boum.org
Minrequirements:Windows 7 /8.1/10,
macOSorLinux Filesize: 1 .1GB
SYSTEMCLEANER
BleachBit 3
http://www.bleachbit.org
Minrequirements:Windows7/8.1/10orLinux
File size:11.3MB