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(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. …

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. …

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. …

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? …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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. …