I wish Tails ditched Gnome..
Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
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Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#32Does anyone if/when Tails will support Apple Silicon?
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#33Tails is one of those tools I always keep on me physically. Added it to my key ring 6 years ago , and I get use out of it at least twice a month. Also started using it as a recovery ISO. But my main use case is when I have to use a computer but don’t have mine around . Just pop the USB in and voila all the access I need and my data stored in the persistent partition.
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#34Fireship did a 2:40 minute video on this a few hours ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVKAyw0xqxw
Short and informative :-)
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#35How does Tails help you avoid censorship?
It's a Tor client. Bypassing censorship is one of Tor's design goals.
If you get canceled and ISPs refuse to give you service Tor is not able to somehow bypass that censorship. If the server your hidden service is hosted on is taken away in a raid. Tor doesn't help you there.
Providing limited protection from being deanonymized doesn't mean that you can no longer be censored.
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#36I might be wrong but I think this was a project originated by one of the branches of the US armed forces or security services? In which case, it should be pretty secure. Although, there's the obvious 'honeypot' concern. But maybe I'm thinking of another distro, that ran from RAM and didn't write anything to disk.
Tails was "FUNDED" by the TOR project, which was started by the US Navy. So, not really...
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#37Love Tails, but I haven't used it in ten years. I have had Tails and Qubes disposable VMs on my mind though. I switched off of Qubes last year to my own Alpine chroot with a hand crafted kernel and initrd that lives only in memory. I find turning off the computer when I'm finished and having it forget everything to be a very peaceful way to compute. I owe the internet a write up. I feel like ramfs for root filesystem…
> I owe the internet a write up.
I would definitely be interested in reading more about this.
I love the idea of being able to prevent an application from writing all over my disk to random places. If I can't prevent it, I can at least remedy it by having all those changes go away with a reboot.
One of the things I love about Docker containers is that they can be ephemeral or persistent, short or long term, have full network access or no access, allowed to write to the host system or stuck writing to its own file system only.
I'm in control instead of the application.
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
All known law enforcement attacks against Tor have involved some kind of exploit (e.g., in Tor Browser) that creates a non-Tor connection to collect the user's IP. Tails does not protect against this. Whonix provides much stronger protection against practical, real-world attacks, since the entire operating system is forced through a Tor connection.
It’s probably important to note that as I understand it, these attacks have generally been Firefox zero-day exploits that have made its way in because the Tor Browser is based on Firefox ESR with patches.
Darknet sites should be on something with a much smaller attack surface like the pages from the Gopher or Gemini protocols.
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#39Tails is one of those tools I always keep on me physically. Added it to my key ring 6 years ago , and I get use out of it at least twice a month. Also started using it as a recovery ISO. But my main use case is when I have to use a computer but don’t have mine around . Just pop the USB in and voila all the access I need and my data stored in the persistent partition.
I also spent most of my internship long ago researching secure operating systems for the analysts of the company I worked for and Tails was the best fit with Qubes being second due to how power hungry it is. Another was subgraph but at the time it wasn’t properly developed. Overall if you need a OS that guarantees that all your traffic is anonymised via Tor and that it is ephemeral Tails is superb.
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#40Tails OS is my daily driver for absolutely normal day usage and do legal stuff. (No tomfoolery involved)
I'm interested in why you chose this.
What are the main benefits you get from using Tails OS?
What downsides do you tolerate because of the benefits?