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Hello, Thank you for coming

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We're gonna give a talk about and 
gonna give a technical overview of tails.

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That's kurono, intrigeri 
and I am BitingBird

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We are all tails contributors
in different fields.

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I don't do technical things,

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intrigeri is one of the 
oldest tails contributors

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and kurono contributes 
since three years now

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Tails is the acronym of
the-amnesic-incognito-life-system

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And there is the nice url, 
where you can have all the information.

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It's a life operating system.

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It works on almost any computer -
except ARM

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And it boots from a dvd or a usb stick

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and theoretically from sdcard too, 
but it doesn't work very well.

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The focus of our new distribution 
is privacy and anonymity.

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It allows the user 
to use the internet anonymously.

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And also, when there is censorship,
to circumvent it.

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All the connections to 
the internet go with tor,

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which is an anonymization network.

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That's the first big feature of tails.

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And the second one is

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that there is no trace 
on the computer you are using

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so after you used it nobody can see
that you've used the computer.

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If somebody would grab your computer 
and search files

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they would not know, 
what you have done.

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Unless you ask for it explicitly <????>

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We have also a lot of data producing tools

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because some users use it to write books,
articles, video and such things.

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They want to be able to create such documents without being traced.

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We have a very good report,

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not from our users,

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actually from the people 
we are suppused to protect them against.

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The NSA says, that it's a pain in the ass.

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When the NSA says 
you're making their life harder

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somehow you're doing something right.

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[klapping, laughing]

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I guess you can imagine who's 
the famous tails user

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who gave us access to the documents where
they say that

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There is also Bruce Schneier
who says he uses tails

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so, not bad.

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So, what are our goals?

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We took a stance in the beginning of tails

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that it was not really common back then

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to have usability as a security feature

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because "ubergeeks" where already able
to have secure communication.

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We think that privacy 
is not an individual matter.

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It's a collective matter.

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Everybody needs to have privacy

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and new users and non geek users 
had no way to get access to this.

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The tools existed but they had 
no user interface

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or they where rally hard to configure.

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So, we designed a system that gives 
a quite good level of security

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with a quite good level of usability.

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Lots of the time people ask us, why we 
don't include more security features.

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We have to make a balance between 
usability and security.

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Because if it's really secure
but nobody can use it

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then it doesn't bring anything.

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It makes security accessible
for most people.

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Another important point in our project

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is to have a very small delta 
to our upstream.

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Our main upstream is Debian and we try 
to not to diverge to much from it.

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Because the more you do things differently
the more work you have to maintain.