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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 and OnionShare

Tails 2.10 includes the OnionShare software for the first time. While experimenting with OnionShare I discovered that I could share files on my desktop. That surprised me. … Should we be asking Tails developers to adopt the same approach to OnionShare as to TorBrowser? …
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Variable success in verifying Tails

For example, to verify the tails-amd64-3.6.iso file, I enter the command gpg --keyid-format 0xlong --verify tails-amd64-3.6.iso.sig tails-amd64-3.6.iso which returns the informative message: gpg: Signature … made Tue 13 Mar 2018 11:41:20 AEDT gpg: using RSA key 0x3020A7A9C2B72733 gpg: Good signature from "Tails developers <tails@boum.org>" gpg: aka "Tails developers (offline …
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Why does Tails use an insecure memory wiping process

When I shutdown Tails, various standard messages appear including the statement that if the system does not power-off, then it is likely that the memory wiping process has failed. … Why is Tails not overwriting the memory using random bytes? …
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Where to with Tails when Vidalia dies

If the Tor Browser Bundle is to dump Vidalia with the move to TBB version 3.x, what will happen with Tails? … Vidalia seems to be the foundation for the torifcation of the whole of the live distribution in Tails? …
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