Tails OS_
A portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
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Did you get a flash drive and now you are curious if you have an authentic copy of the TailsOS?
Find a step-by-step guide 1 / step-by-step guide 2 on how to verify it to make sure you are NOT just plugging a random USB into your system! Otherwise Reset your USB, download TailsOS, verify the authenticity and flash your newly acquired USB with the image that you trust.
Tails works on:
- Most PC computers that are less than 10 years old
- Some older Mac computers with an Intel processor
Tails does not work:
- Newer Mac computers with an Apple processor (M1 or M2)
- Smartphones or tablets
- Raspberry Pi
Tails might not work on:
- Some older computers, for example, if they don't have 2 GB of RAM.
- Some newer computers, for example, if their graphics card is incompatible with Linux.
- Nvidia or AMD Radeon cards often do not work in Tails.
- Tor Browser with uBlock, a secure browser and an ad-blocker
- Thunderbird, for encrypted emails
- KeePassXC, to create and store strong passwords
- LibreOffice, an office suite
- OnionShare, to share files, websites, and chat rooms over Tor
- Metadata Cleaner, to remove metadata from files
- and many more!
To prevent mistakes:
- Applications are blocked automatically if they try to connect to the Internet without Tor.
- Everything in the Persistent Storage is encrypted automatically.
- Tails does not write anything to the hard disk.
- All the memory is deleted when shutting down.
