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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.
Download: https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
Getting Started: https://tails.boum.org/getting_started/index.en.html
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TAILS Linux 1.5 is Out (Aug 11, 2015)
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You dialed 5483.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:25AM
The article is live for hours, and still no comment?
On a more serious note: I'm looking for a distro to keep on my key-ring, focused on privacy and forensic. From what I see, TAILS covers privacy, but doesn't have all the forensic stuff installed. Can anyone recommend a distribution that tailors both needs? Or should I do a custom-installation?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @03:39PM
Kali Linux might be what you're looking for.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kali [distrowatch.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @04:58PM
Anything with systemd isn't it.
Nor anything running on a compromised CPU (AMT/Vpro/etc)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @01:21PM
I just read the Tails help pages for the first time. Those who haven't read their warnings page need to read it. Its eye-opening if you think you are being watched.
https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/index.en.html [boum.org]
For using Tails, it looks like I need an uncompromised system to download the ISO and an uncompromised system to write it to a flash drive etc, and then never insert it into a compromised system. For anyone running Windows, Mac, this is an issue.
What if I don't have access to an uncompromised system? What to do?
a) I think I will put in an old, unused hard drive into a computer.
b) Install Linux from a CD that I burned many years ago.
c) Download a bittorrent client using pre-installed FF.
d) Download the Tails torrent, write ISO to drive.
So much work. But I will be using it from now on.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday August 14 2015, @09:01PM
I'd give your OS a try... but... how far can I trust an anonymous coward to not be simply rooting my computer?
What did you expect when you voted for a convicted felon, peace and rainbows?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @02:40PM
"how far can I trust an anonymous coward to not be simply rooting my computer?"
how far can you trust MS Windows when they have root?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @12:53AM
I found that if I put a file on Tails in my home directory (bookmarks.html), or in ~/Persistent, I cannot open that file in either the secure or insecure browser. Is this a bug or a feature?
Also, installation of onionshare no longer works. It fails while running 'apt-get update', and the Tails website says to not do that. So it looks like an onionshare bug.