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The Amnesic Incognito Live System (TAILS) is a live CD/USB distribution preconfigured so that everything is safely routed through Tor and leaves no trace on the local system.

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Tails 1st time use, I could see neighbors' wifi networks

(Someone else can confirm this - I run Tails in a VM, so I don't use wireless natively.) … However, to put your mind at rest, I'd recommend verifying the authenticity of your Tails download. …
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Can TAILS "confidence" suggestions be trusted?

Yes, you could have been a victim of MITM when downloading the Tails binary. Yes, you could have been a victim when downloading the signing key. … From Trusting Tails Signing Key: We will present you three techniques from the easiest to the safest. Again, none of them is a perfect and magic solution. …
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Can't ping remote address or domain in Tails

The ping tool uses ICMP packets, which are not supported by Tor, and therefore can't be sent from within Tails. (Tor supports only TCP as its transport layer protocol.) … Note that to install any additional software on Tails, you'd first need to ensure that an admin account has been created. …
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Signature not verified

And: As a consequence, they don't provide you with a strong way of checking the ISO image authenticity and making sure you downloaded a genuine Tails. … You'll have to decide how much trust you have in them, as discussed in a previous thread: Can TAILS "confidence" suggestions be trusted? …
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On Tails, using python urllib2

The Tails firewall will prevent you from doing this. Only applications that have been explicitly whitelisted are allowed to communicate with the outside world. This is by design. … Have a read of the Network Filter page on the Tails site. You'll have to whitelist your application/script to allow it to connect to a foreign IP address. …
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Does Claws in TAILS actually accomplish anything for anonymity?

Finally, how can they reply without going to my ISP? which would identify me again. I can set up an e-mail server, but without a hostname or IP address, no one can talk to it. Even if you ran …
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Multiple download sites for verification

Your options are either to download Tails via: bit-torrent; HTTPS from a mirror. … However, the way that the official Tails mirrors work is to actually act as virtual hosts with the main site pointing to them, meaning there is only one button, rather than a list of places from which …
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Accessibility in tails

Have a look at the Accessibility page of the Tails documentation. It appears that accessibility options aren't activated in the welcome dialog, but instead from the universal access menu. … For the day-to-day use of Tails, this caveat shouldn't pose a problem: The Tails Installer is only used once, when creating a live USB stick; The Unsafe Browser is different to the browser that a user …
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Firewall with Tails

Have a look at the Network Filter documentation. .... This is solved by blocking all outbound Internet traffic except Tor (and I2P when enabled), and explicitly configuring all applications to …
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Does tails work with Mini free Laptops

The Tails official requirements page says you should be fine on most post-2005 systems with 2GB of memory or more. Which Minifree laptops have. Can you boot Tails from DVD on mini free? … Can you boot Tails from USB on mini free? Yes. …
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Where can I see what version of Tails I have?

Tails Upgrader should run automatically when Tails connects to the Tor network after startup. There shouldn't be a need to check the version manually: Tails should keep itself up to date. … for whatever reason, your system was unable to connect to the Tor network at startup (e.g. if you didn't have a network connection), then you can run the upgrader manually from the command line using tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper …
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Why can I not install android tools and fastboot in TAILS?

I think there's an assumption that the desktop/laptop you're using to do this won't be running Tails. … The problem will be that Tails doesn't know where the Android packages are located, with the solution being to update its list of known sources. …
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