We were not contacted by Exodus Intel prior to their tweet. In fact, a more irritated version of this text was ready when we finally received an email from them. They informed us that they would provide us with a report within a week. We're told they won't disclose these vulnerabilities publicly before we have corrected it, and Tails users have had a chance to upgrade. We think that this is the right process to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities, and we're really looking forward to read this report.
Being fully aware of this kind of threat, we're continously working on improving Tails' security in depth. Among other tasks, we're working on a tight integration of AppArmor in Tails, [[!tails_ticket desc="kernel" 7639]] and [[!tails_ticket desc="web browser hardening" 5802]] as well as [[!tails_ticket desc="sandboxing" 6081]], just to name a few examples.
We are happy about every contribution which protects our users further from deanonymization and helps them to protect their private data, investigations, and their lives. If you are a security researcher, please audit Tails, Debian, Tor or any other piece of software we ship. To report or discuss vulnerabilities you discover, please get in touch with us by sending email to <info@tails.net>.