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TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a Debian-based Linux distribution focused on maximizing privacy and anonymity online. It is intended to be run "live" from a flash drive or disc. All internet traffic is routed through the Tor network and no traces of your activities are stored on the local machine.

TAILS (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a Debian-based Linux distribution intended to be run "live" from a flash drive or disc. TAILS was created to maximize privacy and anonymity online (e.g. via extensive use of Tor, the abundance of pre-installed encryption tools, and minimization of stored user data). By default, all internet traffic is routed through the Tor network, and no traces of your activities are stored on the local machine.

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Configuring persistent storage on Tails linux

When using tails linux, I am having difficult configuring persistent storage. I run a VMWare VM, and boot off the tails iso, and I have a vmdk configured as attached to the machine. The vmdk volume is formatted ext3 and lives at /dev/sda5p1. I'd…
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Boot USB Tails through VirtualBox?

So I have Tails 1.2 on my USB (Disk 5) and also on a partition (2) on an external hard drive (Disk 4). The USB shows up as 3.75GB and the partition is 6GB. I want to be able to boot either Disk 4 or Disk 5 through virtualbox but can't seem to get…
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Booting Linux off a SD Card

I have a work tablet/laptop that is currently running win8.1 i am interested in running Tails on this machine,how would i go about doing so ? how large should the sd Card be,since tails is 1gb,would a 2gb SD card will be fine ? Machine in question…
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Tails "clone" LiveUSB wont boot

I'll try to be as clear as possible. I did install Tails to a USB, then I cloned it over another USB and thats where the problems started. The "clone tails usb" won't start in my laptop. I did try to boot it in another computer and it does starts…
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Failed MacbookAir boot Linux (Tails) - Kernel panic on boot

I’ve an error with my MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018), version 10.15.1 Boot ROM version : 1037.40.124.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.11081.0.0,0) I try to boot on Tails by a USB key and Apple adaptator Thunderbotl/USB See the log after select Tails boot…
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Custom-sized persistence storage for Tails on USB flash drive

I've been trying out tails on a USB flash drive. By default, when I create the persistence storage, it fills up the entire remaining space of the flash drive. This basically makes the flash drive useless for any "typical" usage, i.e. a simple,…
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How do I permanently uninstall a virtual CD-Drive containing Tails?

So for a class assignment we had to install tails on our computer. It seems I've went some round about way and managed to install it as a virtual-cd drive. Only thing is I can't remove it. I've tried going to device manager and uninstalling it. It…
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How can I install pip package persistently on Tails?

I installed pip3 using following: sudo apt update sudo apt install -y python3-pip When I run pip3 install --user passphraseme, package is not installed persistently. How can I install pip package persistently on Tails?
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How to access external HDD from tails OS?

I am booting to tails OS using a flash drive of sandisk 32 GB. When it is powered on, I connected one more external HDD of 500 GB to the machine. But it is not showing. How to access and also how to partition the HDD from this tails OS on another…
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Howto fix outdated backport repository in tails?

i have basically the same problem as Tails additional software unmet dependencies , but cant comment right now. I am running tails 3.12, live version, and adding additional software is not working after the restart, unlike before the update. "[INFO]…
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VirtualBox + Tails ... types of Linux

I want to use Tails (version 3.7) on VirtualBox (version 5.2.12) And there are a lot of types of Linux you can choose: Linux x32 Linux x64 Fedora x32 Fedora x64 Ubuntu x32 Ubuntu x64 Debian x32 Debian x64 etc... etc... The question is - what type…
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TAILS Virtual Machine Blank Screen On Boot

I've recently downloaded a copy of the TAILS 3.1 64-bit ISO image, burned it onto a disc and created a virtual machine through Oracle. At first glance, the virtual machine is running normally. The machine boots up into its initial options, giving…
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Boot from live Tails SD card on Mac OSX El Capitan

Goal: Boot into Tails from an SD card on a Macbook Air running El Capitan. Specs: Macbook Air, 8Gb RAM, i5, Running OSX 10.11 "El Capitan". Solutions tried and problems with each: Follow Tails instructions for Mac OSX Problem: After everything is…
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Tails Installer fails with insufficient space error on a 64GB usb

I am trying to create a Tails Live USB via the Tails Installer on a 64GB usb key. I can successfully run Tails from a temporary USB key, but I run into trouble on the last step of Tails Installer > Clone & Install > Select Target Device > Install.…
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Getting Exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused when running Minecraft.jar on TAILS linux

I am running Tails from an USB stick (because hard drive is broken) and when I try to run Minecraft I keep getting the same error. Should I specify any parameter when calling Java? How do I solve this? Please, assume (launcher.pack.lzma) as…
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