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Linux Distro: Tails - You Can Never Be Too Paranoid

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
Linux Journal; By Michael Reed 		Mail this story
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Tails is a live media Linux distro designed boot into a highly secure desktop environment. You may remember that we looked at a US government distro with similar aims a few months ago, but Tails is different because it is aimed at the privacy conscious “normal user” rather than government workers.

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vainrveenr ·
Although the Linux Journal piece does not explicitly mention this, TAILS apparently stands for The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System.

Indeed, according to Distrowatch, TAILS is actually called the Incognito Live System.

From http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=incognito
Quoting:The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System is a Debian-based live CD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.




nikkels ·
Please correct the headline. It's Tails, not tales

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