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
#2Would be curious to hear criticisms of Tails, if anyone has opinions about it.
To be clear, I'm a fan of the product -- just wondering what the other side of the story is.
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#3Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#4Is it new or something? This is the second time I've heard about it in 24 hours, and had never heard of it before.
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#5Is it new or something? This is the second time I've heard about it in 24 hours, and had never heard of it before.
No, not new. If I recall correctly, Snowden approved of it back in roughly 2017(?)
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#6Would be curious to hear criticisms of Tails, if anyone has opinions about it. To be clear, I'm a fan of the product -- just wondering what the other side of the story is.
There may be a security advantage to using a separate non-bypassable network appliance that puts your traffic on Tor, since then it would be much harder to break into a Tails machine and make it leak your location. However, given that it's meant to be easy to use, I think they probably picked the right balance by having the Tor redirecting occur in the same address space as the computing environment.
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#7It seems like a growing number of things once referred to as Linux distributions are now referring to themselves as operating systems. If the kernel is Linux, and the user-space is GNU, what makes this a distinct operating system from, say, SUSE, or Arch?
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#8Is it new or something? This is the second time I've heard about it in 24 hours, and had never heard of it before.
No, not new. If I recall correctly, Snowden approved of it back in roughly 2017(?)
Initial release 2009
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#9The fact that it still does not support an incredibly popular portable computer like the raspberry pi (or anything that ins't intel) saddens me.
Re: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
#10I 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.