Hello, Thank you for coming
We're gonna give a talk about and gonna give a technical overview of tails.
That's kurono, intrigeri and I am BitingBird
We are all tails contributors in different fields.
I don't do technical things,
intrigeri is one of the oldest tails contributors
and kurono contributes since three years now
Tails is the acronym of the-amnesic-incognito-life-system
And there is the nice url, where you can have all the information.
It's a life operating system.
It works on almost any computer - except ARM
And it boots from a dvd or a usb stick
and theoretically from sdcard too, but it doesn't work very well.
The focus of our new distribution is privacy and anonymity.
It allows the user to use the internet anonymously.
And also, when there is censorship, to circumvent it.
All the connections to the internet go with tor,
which is an anonymization network.
That's the first big feature of tails.
And the second one is
that there is no trace on the computer you are using
so after you used it nobody can see that you've used the computer.
If somebody would grab your computer and search files
they would not know, what you have done.
Unless you ask for it explicitly <????>
We have also a lot of data producing tools
because some users use it to write books, articles, video and such things.
They want to be able to create such documents without being traced.
We have a very good report,
not from our users,
actually from the people we are suppused to protect them against.
The NSA says, that it's a pain in the ass.
When the NSA says you're making their life harder
somehow you're doing something right.
[klapping, laughing]
I guess you can imagine who's the famous tails user
who gave us access to the documents where they say that
There is also Bruce Schneier who says he uses tails
so, not bad.
So, what are our goals?
We took a stance in the beginning of tails
that it was not really common back then
to have usability as a security feature.