Tails or The Amnesic Incognito Live System is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.
All its incoming and outgoing connections are forced to go through Tor, nd any and all non-anonymous connections are blocked.
The system is designed to be booted as a live DVD or live USB, and will leave no digital footprint on the machine unless explicitly told to do so.
The Tor Project has provided financial support for its development.
Tails was first released on 23 June 2009. It is the next iteration of development on Incognito, a Gentoo-based Linux distribution. The Tor Project has provided financial support for its development.
Tails has also received funding from the Debian Project, Mozilla, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, and Barton Gellman have each said that Tails was an important tool they used in their work with National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
As of release 3.0, Tails requires a 64-bit processor to run.
Tails works on most reasonably recent computers, say manufactured after 2008. Here is a detailed list of requirements:
Either an internal or external DVD reader or the possibility to boot from a USB stick.
Tails requires a 64-bit x86-64 compatible processor: IBM PC compatible and others but not PowerPC nor ARM. Mac computers are IBM PC compatible since 2006. Tails does not run on most tablets and phones.
2 GB of RAM to work smoothly. Tails is known to work with less memory but you might experience strange behaviours or crashes.
Tails is based on Debian 9 (Stretch).
GNOME, an intuitive and attractive desktop environment (More...)
Networking
Tor with:
stream isolation
regular, obfs2, obfs3, obfs4, and ScrambleSuit bridges support
the Onion Circuits graphical frontend (More...)
NetworkManager for easy network configuration (More...)
Tor Browser (More...), a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox and modified to protect your anonymity with:
Torbutton for anonymity and protection against evil JavaScript
all cookies are treated as session cookies by default;
HTTPS Everywhere transparently enables SSL-encrypted connections to a great number of major websites
NoScript to have even more control over JavaScript.
uBlock Origin to remove advertisements.
Pidgin preconfigured with OTR for Off-the-Record Messaging (More...)
OnionShare for anonymous filesharing
Thunderbird email client with Enigmail for OpenPGP support, also an RSS and Atom news feed reader (More...)
Aircrack-ng for wireless network auditing
Electrum, an easy-to-use bitcoin client (More...)
LibreOffice (More...)
Gimp and Inkscape to edit images (More...)
Scribus for page layout
GNOME Sound Recorder for recording sound (More...)
Audacity for recording and editing sounds (More...)
Poedit to edit .po files
Simple Scan and SANE for scanner support
Brasero to burn CD/DVDs
Sound Juicer to rip audio CDs
BookletImposer to convert linear PDF documents into booklets, and vice-versa
Encryption and privacy
Support for both LUKS and VeraCrypt encrypted volumes (like USB sticks) (More...)
GnuPG, the GNU implementation of OpenPGP for email and data encyption and signing
GNOME screen keyboard for accessibility, and as a countermeasure against hardware keyloggers (More...)
MAT to anonymize metadata in files
KeePassX password manager (More...)
GtkHash to calculate checksums (More...)
The full packages list can be found in the BitTorrent files download directory (look for files with the .packages extension).
Install Tails 3.14.1 (2019-06-20)
All its incoming and outgoing connections are forced to go through Tor, nd any and all non-anonymous connections are blocked.
The system is designed to be booted as a live DVD or live USB, and will leave no digital footprint on the machine unless explicitly told to do so.
The Tor Project has provided financial support for its development.
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| Tails is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity. |
Tails Guide: system requirements and features and included software.
Tails was first released on 23 June 2009. It is the next iteration of development on Incognito, a Gentoo-based Linux distribution. The Tor Project has provided financial support for its development.
Tails has also received funding from the Debian Project, Mozilla, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, and Barton Gellman have each said that Tails was an important tool they used in their work with National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
As of release 3.0, Tails requires a 64-bit processor to run.
System requirements.
Tails works on most reasonably recent computers, say manufactured after 2008. Here is a detailed list of requirements:
Either an internal or external DVD reader or the possibility to boot from a USB stick.
Tails requires a 64-bit x86-64 compatible processor: IBM PC compatible and others but not PowerPC nor ARM. Mac computers are IBM PC compatible since 2006. Tails does not run on most tablets and phones.
2 GB of RAM to work smoothly. Tails is known to work with less memory but you might experience strange behaviours or crashes.
Tails is based on Debian 9 (Stretch).
Included software.
GNOME, an intuitive and attractive desktop environment (More...)
Networking
Tor with:
stream isolation
regular, obfs2, obfs3, obfs4, and ScrambleSuit bridges support
the Onion Circuits graphical frontend (More...)
NetworkManager for easy network configuration (More...)
Tor Browser (More...), a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox and modified to protect your anonymity with:
Torbutton for anonymity and protection against evil JavaScript
all cookies are treated as session cookies by default;
HTTPS Everywhere transparently enables SSL-encrypted connections to a great number of major websites
NoScript to have even more control over JavaScript.
uBlock Origin to remove advertisements.
Pidgin preconfigured with OTR for Off-the-Record Messaging (More...)
OnionShare for anonymous filesharing
Thunderbird email client with Enigmail for OpenPGP support, also an RSS and Atom news feed reader (More...)
Aircrack-ng for wireless network auditing
Electrum, an easy-to-use bitcoin client (More...)
Read also: Linux Powerful Distros For Hacking Or Security: Tails Security Through Anonymity.Desktop edition
LibreOffice (More...)
Gimp and Inkscape to edit images (More...)
Scribus for page layout
GNOME Sound Recorder for recording sound (More...)
Audacity for recording and editing sounds (More...)
Poedit to edit .po files
Simple Scan and SANE for scanner support
Brasero to burn CD/DVDs
Sound Juicer to rip audio CDs
BookletImposer to convert linear PDF documents into booklets, and vice-versa
Encryption and privacy
Support for both LUKS and VeraCrypt encrypted volumes (like USB sticks) (More...)
GnuPG, the GNU implementation of OpenPGP for email and data encyption and signing
GNOME screen keyboard for accessibility, and as a countermeasure against hardware keyloggers (More...)
MAT to anonymize metadata in files
KeePassX password manager (More...)
GtkHash to calculate checksums (More...)
The full packages list can be found in the BitTorrent files download directory (look for files with the .packages extension).
Download and Install.
Install Tails 3.14.1 (2019-06-20)
It seems that this operating system has a series of bugs that allow user deanonymization. At least that says Exodus Intelligence, a security company.
ReplyDeleteIn fact they say that even the latest version of Tails, with version 1.1 identifier is vulnerable to the exploit developed by them. However, they also indicate that they will not release it until the development team has corrected the vulnerabilities.
@Giampaolo Rossi.- According to the development team, Tails is an operating system consisting of a lot of software and very diverse (from a kernel to a desktop environment, through many intermediate tools), and it is normal for security breaches to appear from time to time.
DeleteWe remember the maximum of computer security: no system is completely secure if it is not turned off and locked, and all are potentially vulnerable.