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What are the differences between Tails and Whonix?
TailsOS (The Amnesic Incongito Live System)
TailsOS boots off USB and puts you in a live Debian-based linux instance configured to give you out-of-the-box anonymity on potentially any computer system ...
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Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Tails OS
You should run 'VBoxLinuxAdditions.run' file, not the autorun.sh.
Syntax: bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
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Why the link for tails done this?
Someone is interfering with TLS, or your browser has an old certificate pin that is no longer valid and your browser requires updating.
Tails provides mirrors, if access to the main website is ...
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Tails and OnionShare
The threats are completely different.
Tor Browser has a much larger attack surface (it has far more features and functionality that could go wrong) and it's not written in an memory safe language (if ...
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Load an html file in tails browser while offline?
This is a restriction put in place by AppArmor to confine Tor Browser, as such cannot open files in the users home directory or mounted media except where explicitly excepted.
For this purpose, there ...
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Tails -> Verify the ISO image -> Using the command line: "gpg: Impossible de v'erifier la signature : No public key"
Two things:
This isn't the correct installation method for you to follow.
These instructions are for people who are already familiar with basic usage of OpenPGP
You're not following the ...
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Tails 3.0 blocks connection to ANY obfs4 bridge
Make sure your time zone and time settings are correct, if your system clock time is off, obfs4 will fail to connect.
Tails automatically synchronize time upon start, but sometimes the time ...
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Tor usage in North Korea as a foreigner
Yes it is too risky.
I absolutely do not intend to perform any activities deemed as illegal
or defamatory by the North Korean authorities.
Using Tor at all may be deemed illegal. You can ...
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Tails Tor not starting
Tails uses UTC time. But the time of most devices is set up to the timezone of their sale, which can be considered as de-anonimization.
What I usually do is manual explicit setting the hardware clock ...
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Proxy after Tor in Tails
Yes, you can use a web-based proxy to avoid being blocked when a website notices your tor exit node IP address. I tested this particular proxy with two different websites that block tor traffic, and ...
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Tails display errors and persistence errors!
Did you install Tails from the first Tails USB media into the second USB media?
As of August 2018, Tails requires 2 USB media in order to end up with a secure installation.
With the first USB medium ...
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How to install tails os on sd card?
This is ugly and not recommended.
For this example the following assumptions are made:
The sd-card will be /dev/mmcblk0 and the USB installation target /dev/sdb
The sd-card is larger than the usb ...
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Installing virtualbox in tails
I would strongly recommend against this. Infact other software that requires dkms modules is explicitly recommended against by the Tails developers. It is not officially supported by them. Inserting ...
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What are the key differences between SubgraphOS and Tails?
Mentioning only a very few,
Subgraph has a Grsecurity/PaX hardened kernel. Tails doesn't.
Subgraph lets you choose which application to route through Tor and which through clearnet or VPN very easily....
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Can Tails be installed as primary OS?
Exactly, as Jens and others mentioned above, Tails is not meant to be your primary OS for many reasons. There's another project aiming to provide exactly for your need, however it is still in beta and ...
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Can I install Tails on a WD My Passport?
It looks like it will probably work, WD USB HDDs appear as a USB drive which should allow the Tails installer to install onto it.
To start the Tails installer, you'll need a working Ubuntu, Debian or ...
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Electrum Doesn't Use Persistence in TAILS OS
As per Tails documentation:
Go to Applications -> Tails -> Configure Persistent Volume then choose the option for Bitcoin Client then click on Save and reboot your Tails for the changes to take ...
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Why is the "administrator" password not saved in Tails?
Correct however anyone with access to the physical media need not set the administartor password to gain the equivalent of root access.
From that perspective disabling the ability to ever be root ...
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I am interested in using tor on a Arm based processor laptop is there a way to do this?
Tor should work fine on ARM CPUs.
On distributions like Debian there are Tor versions for arm, arm64, armel, armhf (even mips, mipsel and powerpc). The Tor Project themselves also distribute debian ...
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Tails USB Stick Not Booting
Your question is quite puzzling,
Burning a iso to a dvd would work straight (if your BIOS is configured or you choose a device to boot)
Making a USB bootable is not as simple as imaging the DVD to the ...
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Tails added Ublock Origin is this as bad as it looks?
No.
This is no different from the fact that Tails used to ship with AdBlock Plus, it's just a different extension.
Yes, it's fingerprintable but they can only tell you're using Tails.
No, it doesn'...
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Hiding Tails on USB drive
If your USB stick is smart enough - yes. Make it a multipartitional one. If you are good with a soldering iron - make it yourself like this and you should add a button(with a pull resistor of course!) ...
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What is more secure: Tails or Subgraph?
Subgraph is definitely more secure, it uses grsec/pax to harden against memory corruption exploits and a sandboxing system called oz to isolate and restrict applications run under it, to reduce the ...
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Tails Installer (Install by cloning) recommend optimal USB stick for performance and privacy
what is the optimal usb stick for privacy? I dont think thats a question with an answer a usb stick is a usb stick.
In terms of size 4gb would be the minimum but if you want to have extra space to ...
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Cannot SSH from Tails
The issue is that Tails' ssh config will try to use Tor to connect to any internet routable address, with exceptions set for private IP ranges.
Since you're referencing the public address, ssh is ...
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Tails: How to connect Tails to a Samba network-share?
Yes, from the top bar of the desktop:
Applications -> Accessories -> Files
On the Files window, on the bookmarks bar on the left, scroll to the bottom of the list and select Other Locations.
At the ...
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Error in Tails Error opening directory 'home/amnesia'
Firstly, Tails uses apparmor to restrict Tor Browser's access to the file system, it can only save files to ~/Tor Browser or ~/Persistence/Tor Browser. For more details on this, see my answer here.
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Downloading linux mint through tor
Yes, you should be able to do this.
Start up Tails on your PC
Download the desired ISO
Install software to create a bootable USB stick (e.g. unetbootin)
(See: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/...
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Does suspending TAILS then removing the USB drive increase security?
you should search about cold boot attack: hibernation to the usb is better than suspend because you will carry the data with you.
if someone steal your laptop will have all the time he want to ...
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My Mouse and Keyboard Don't Work With Tails
Take a look at this site: https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/
For me the internal keyboard of the Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 doesen't work. I use a bluetooth keyboard with an USB dongle.
For ...
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