TAILS is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly.
It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the computer's original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.
Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc. - https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html
# Check first the about and warning pages to make sure that Tails is the right tool for you and that you understand well its limitations.
It can be downloaded here. There is plenty more info on the site, linked to above, giving details of the security enhancements and bug fixes over previous versions.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by K_benzoate on Monday July 06 2015, @08:14AM
Just updated my Bittorrent server with this release. I always leave TAILS seeding 24/7, it's the least I can do as a "fuck you" to NSA and all the other surveillance states in the world. Of course, this means I am definitely being spied on by NSA more closely than the average shitizen. If you've ever even done a web search for TAILS or other privacy tools you are targeted for increased surveillance. [makeuseof.com]
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Monday July 06 2015, @12:56PM
How would the NSA tell privacy paranoid people from random fans of Sonic the Hedgehog video games? "Tails" is also the canon nickname of a character in that series [wikia.com].
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday July 07 2015, @02:10AM
I would guess they look at the IP addresses of people who connect to tails.boum.org, not Google searches for the word "tails".
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 2) by GoonDu on Tuesday July 07 2015, @01:25AM
>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/interest-privacy-will-ensure-youre-targeted-nsa/
Waaaait, a minute. That's a honeypot isn't it? I'm going to in the list for reading an article about people putting other people on the list.