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Tails is a Linux live distribution preconfigured for privacy and anonimity.

Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a Linux distribution designed for privacy and anomimity. It is based on Debian , with additional packages and specific configuration. It is designed to be booted from a read-only media and to leave as few identifiable traces as possible. In particular, all network connections got through Tor .

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Tails OS - Modifying boot options

When Tails OS boots, you can press tab to modify the startup options. Is there any way I can save an iso with these options already set? It's a real pain to have to press tab and set them up every time. Surely there must be a better way?
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Does Tails OS have binary blobs in its kernel?

Or is the kernel 100% open source?
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Is Tails moving to Gentoo?

I have a lot of experience with contemporary Linux, but no experience whatsoever with Qubes OS or Tails or the security-focused contemporary distributions. I'm just trying to make sense of what's out there. The Wikipedia page for Tails says, Tails…
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How to add Dvorak in Debian greeter of installation media CD/USB?

I want to contribute a patch to this feature request Consider adding Dvorak in the default keyboard layout option list in the greeter in Tails OS so I am thinking how to do it in Debian 8.7 first. I do not understand precisely how you can make such…
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Creating a 4 partitions Linux/Windows USB drive

I want to create a single 16GB usb drive with the following: (A) 4GB FAT32 Partition usable in Windows (not installing Windows at all, just shared space) (B) 4GB Linux live distro (C) 4GB ext3 Encrypted Persistence (D) 4GB TAILS live I have…
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Dual boot with persistence

I've just installed Kali-Linux 2016.1 and Tails using the YUMI multiboot installer but how do I make a persistence drive for both the OS to save all my settings. I've made a "casper-rw" persistence volume but how do I configure it to work with Kali…
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Live USB - Tails tries to boot but ends up booting into Kali Linux

I have a bootable USB drive with Tails and Kali Linux on it, among others. Kali boots fine. However when I try to load Tails, it manages to get past the Tails loading screen but then the Kali logo appears and freezes, making me reboot. It comes to a…
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Does this dmesg log show files being transferred?

An issue was recently opened on the GitHub page for the privacy-focused VirtualBox wrapper HiddenVM. The opener posts what he claims to be indication of files from his local cache being sent to an external IP: When i used dmesg i saw what it did in…
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Make npm work in tails

The latest tails comes with nodejs v10.24.0. Trying to get tails to run a newer node has been unsuccessful even after running script from deb.nodesource.com/setup_14x which said buster was unsupported. I think updating node was a red herring…
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Installing orca on Debian Based Systems (TAILS / Whonix)

I am wanting to install a screen reader for TAILS and/or Whonix. Here is the project: https://github.com/GNOME/orca Here are Dependencies Orca v3.39.x is supported on GNOME 3.39.x only. We highly suggest you use the latest releases of GNOME because…
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error: need to load kernel first

I tried to download Tails on my computer, however, I couldn't do it because in grub there were 2 errors: error:/live/vmlinuz has invalid signature error: you need to load the kernel first Can anyone please help me with that because I have no idea…
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Why isn’t it possible to create VeraCrypt containers in Tails?

I know it’s possible to read them, but not create them and veracrypt isn’t installed by default. Curious to know why. Duck Duck Go’d like crazy.
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Recover space from persistent storage by Tails OS?

I installed Tails in a USB stick and enabled persistent storage. The USB had 16GB of storage. Now I formatted the USB without freeing up the persistent storage and lost 10GB of space. I remember the passphrase I set while installing. Is there a way…
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Upgrading Tails

I've been having trouble upgrading Tails. Its been taking a really long time and seems to get stuck or not make any progress. I've also gotten an error message. Here is the ouput from activating the auto update manually. amnesia@amnesia:~$…
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Boot Tails 3.7 ISO from USB with grub2

Made a USB to boot multiple ISOs with grub2 as described in Boot Multiple ISO from USB via Grub2 using Linux Works well for Linux Mint 18.3 Now trying to configure Tails 3.7 but not much luck Tried this (options commented are ones that I tried and…
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