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“The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Live CD, Live USB) is aimed at preserving your privacy and anonymity:
all outgoing connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
no trace is left on local storage devices unless explicitely asked.
It has many other features.
Technical details can be found in the design documentation.
Warning
Tails heavily relies on Tor for its anonymity features. Tor is experimental software based on current computer science research and thus it cannot guarantee strong anonymity. A good starting point for evaluating what kind of anonymity you can expect from Tor (and by extension Tails) is the About Tor section of The Tor Project’s website.”
” The Amnesic Incognito Live System is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL (version 3 or above).
This website uses several images with various copyright, licenses, trademarks and terms of distributions:
Debian logo: Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest
USB stick icon: source; waived of all copyright and related or neighboring rights under the CC0 PD Dedication; policies
CD icon: source; license: attribution; designer: The Noun Project
Onion Logo: registered trademark of The Tor Project, Inc.; the Tails project is authorized to use it under certain conditions; licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.”
” The Amnesic Incognito Live System could not exist without Debian, Debian Live and Tor; see our relationship with upstream document for details;
Tails was inspired by the Incognito LiveCD. The Incognito author has declared it to be dead on March 23, 2010, and written that The Amnesic Incognito Live System “should be considered as its spiritual successor”.
The Privatix Live-System was an early source of inspiration, too.
Portions of this product are based in part on TrueCrypt, freely available at http://www.truecrypt.org/.”
Wikipedia:”The Amnesic Incognito Live System or Tails is a Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity. It is the next iteration of development on the Incognito Linux distribution. It is based off of Debian, with all outgoing connections forced to go through Tor. The system is designed to be booted as a live cd or usb and no trace is left on local storage unless explicitly told to.”
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Tails (Incognito Amnesic OS)


Tails is a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leave no trace using unless you ask it explicitly.
It is a complete operating-system designed to be used from a DVD or a USB stick independently of the computer’s original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.
Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc.
Anonymity online through Tor
Tails relies on the Tor anonymity network to protect your privacy online: all software are configured to connect through Tor, and direct (non-anonymous) connections are blocked.
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.
Use anywhere but leave no trace
  • Using Tails on a computer doesn’t alter or depend on the operating system installed on it. So you can use it in the same way on yours, the computer of a friend or one at your local library. After removing your Tails DVD or USB stick the computer can start again on its usual operating system.
  • Tails is configured with a special care to not use the computer’s hard-disks, even if there is some swap space on it. The only storage space used by Tails is the RAM memory, which is automatically erased when the computer shuts down. So you won’t leave any trace neither of the Tails system nor of what you did on the computer. That’s why we call it “amnesic”.
  • This allows you to work on sensitive documents on any computer and protect you from data recovery after shutdown. Of course, you can still explicitly save some documents to another USB or external hard-disk and take them aways for future use.
State-of-the-art cryptographic tools
  • Tails also comes with a selection of tools to protect your data using strong encryption:
  • Encrypt your USB sticks or external hard-disks using LUKS, the Linux standard for disk-encryption.
  • Automatically encrypt with HTTPS all your communications to a number of major websites using HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox extension developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  • Encrypt and sign your emails and documents, using the de facto standard OpenPGP either from Tails email client, text editor or file browser.
  • Protect your instant messaging conversations using OTR, a cryptographic tool that provides encryption, authentication and deniability.
  • Securely delete your files and clean your diskspace using Nautilus Wipe.

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