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Tails is a live operating system aimed at protecting your privacy and anonymity that you can start on almost any computer from a USB stick or a DVD.

Tails is a live operating system aimed at protecting your privacy and anonymity that you can start on almost any computer from a USB stick or a DVD. Get Tails.

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Installation

System Requirements

  • Either an internal or external DVD reader or the possibility to boot from a USB stick/SD card.

  • Tails requires a 64-bit x86-64 compatible processor: IBM PC compatible and others but not PowerPC nor ARM. Mac computers are IBM PC compatible since 2006. Tails does not run on most tablets and phones.

  • 2 GB of RAM to work smoothly. It is possible to run with less, but crashes, slowness, and strange behavior is possible.

What This Sub Is

This subreddit is for the latest news and updates regarding Tails, requesting Tails support, and discussion regarding the Tails project.

What This Sub Is Not

This is not a place for posting general privacy-related news, other privacy-focused software, or individual onion services. Please see the "Related Subreddits" list below for recommendations regarding these topics.

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2

What do you use it for?

I'm afraid to ask, but why do you use this OS for? why do you need this level of privacy? where do you live?

7 Comments
2024/03/04
23:09 UTC

1

Monero GUI won't open

Just updated to Tails 6.0 and when I try to open Monero GUI the usual dialogue box asking if I want the wallet from persistent storage doesn't show up, I just get the loading icon for a few seconds and then nothing happens. I tried the solution listed here and it didn't do anything. Please help.

2 Comments
2024/03/04
19:07 UTC

2

Lock screen password?

So my lock screen password is still set to the default "root", how do I change it?

2 Comments
2024/03/04
18:09 UTC

2

RDP on tails 6.0

Hi,

normally I "torify remmina" to login to rdps but on the new update it won't let me. Does someone got an idea how I go about this?

7 Comments
2024/03/04
13:29 UTC

3

Install Problems - Thinkpad w701DS

Obviously I'm new to this... I successfully downloaded Tails, verified it and used BalenaEtcher to install the image onto my 32gb USB memory stick. When I boot off the USB stick, I get to the first Tails screen that lets me choose between "Tails 6.0" and "Tails (Troubleshooting Mode). Either one just gets me to a blank screen where the color keeps on changing in some kind of loop. Right before that I get:

"[ 0.652670] x86/cpu : VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS" then a bunch of different number lines saying "ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip"

What does this mean? How can I get past this? I don't have access to any other Windows computer that can boot from USB. The computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad w701DS and the video card is NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M.

Thanks for any help...

8 Comments
2024/03/03
23:20 UTC

4

Kleopatra not working after update.

Anyone else having an issue with kleopatra after the update? It won’t like me decrypt any messages or encrypt… can’t really figure out what’s going on.

Anyone else having any issues?

8 Comments
2024/03/03
20:58 UTC

5

Persistent Storage Issues After Update

Hey, tails 6.0 is my first update. I followed all of the steps on the website using, 2 usb drives to upgrade my version from 5.22 to 6.0. Initially, I thought everything worked out ok but when I tried typing my passphrase, to unlock my PS, I got an error message saying, "failed to unlock PS. Unlock Tails and report issue using whisper." Does anybody have a solution?

3 Comments
2024/03/03
15:45 UTC

12

Persistent storage

So I updated my Sandisk usb to 6.0 successfully. I created Persistent storage and it buffered for a while but it was finally successfully done. I created some new accounts on various websites and saved info in Keepass, made new pgp keys in Kleopatra, saved bookmarks on Tor, etc. etc.

When I tried to boot up again, I get the error shown in picture. I looked up past posts about this but can’t find a satisfactory answer. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

12 Comments
2024/03/03
12:24 UTC

2

Tails boot up isssues

Any clue how to fix this?

1 Comment
2024/03/03
07:21 UTC

1

Unpacking .rar and .7z with Tails 6.0

Can someone provide me with a walkthrough to unpack .rar or .7z with Tails 6.0, please?

Decompression was possible in 5.x with archive manager but now it says rar encryption is unsupported. Only .zip works. I've tried to install 7z with the package manager but it fails somehow. Sorry I haven't got the log. But please tell me if that is the way to go.

Thanks for any tips.

0 Comments
2024/03/03
00:50 UTC

1

I have a mere curiosity.

I have a fully encrypted, somewhat hardened Debian set up

Also, my threat model is small (quite frankly, I'd probably be just fine with a run-of-the-mill VPN or simply Tor by itself, but I enjoy using Tails--after all, why not use overkill when it comes to opsec?)

My question is, what could possibly go wrong if I mounted my PC via Tails and exchanged files? Assume something was malware, assume whatever you need in a worst case scenario. (Obviously, best case would be that nothing malicious would occur. I'm mainly looking for anything below 'best case')

1 Comment
2024/03/02
01:18 UTC

1

Boot issues

Hi all...

I've installed latest version on 4 USB sticks and I'm always facing the same issue:

Error reading data from your Tails USB stick. Please visit https://tails.net/ioerror for troubleshooting.

I can't believe I have all USB sticks faulty :-(

Any ideas about what could be happening?

4 Comments
2024/03/02
00:11 UTC

7

Multiple pgp account

Hello

I been running tails for a bit and love it. I got 1 pgp account set up in Kleopatra. I went to set up another pgp account in Kleopatra but when I msg someone on it they can’t seem to decrypt it.

What am I doing wrong? We should be able to set up multiple accounts on to right?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

Have a safe weekend y’all!!

Thank you

3 Comments
2024/03/01
22:59 UTC

3

Install old version of TailsOS, possible?

Hi, I'm new to Tails os, but I need an old version to work because I have an old 32bit laptop as main pc (the rest is pentium 3, 512mb ram pc and rpi pi zero's... yea I know, I'm poor) and I see that the latest version to support 32bit was 3.0 but I think about getting the 2.0 or 2.10 version of it to be sure, because, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have only 1gb ram, I love the 2.0/10 version desktop enviroment so... yea, but I got a lil problem... where to download old version iso or img? Like... I don't find a downloadable version of it anywhere? If you can help me, I would be really happy, Thanks for all!!

12 Comments
2024/03/01
22:46 UTC

2

Does more storage equals better performance?

Im dont know much about computers but I'm just curious if usb acts as RAM and if so does having more storage in usb affects the performance

5 Comments
2024/03/01
13:44 UTC

1

browser surfing without tor

It would be nice to use the super privacy concerned usb distribution we love with a nice browser like eg Firefox and its password manager without using tor.

I know about the unsafe browser but it has many restrictions like no sync Mozilla password manager And therefore it is difficult to install plugins

Is this easy to implement?

I can install firefox-esr but I can not use net without tor

2 Comments
2024/03/01
10:59 UTC

11

Updating to 6.0

Has anyone encountered any problems trying to upgrade their Tails 5.22 to 6.0?

22 Comments
2024/02/29
17:18 UTC

0

Cleopatra/PGP on tails

If I understand correctly tails erases all data on shutdown. Is it possible to make exceptions and store private keys/ install cleopatra onto a tails stick? Ive read the sticky and looked throught the links but didnt find an answere, really... would appreciate any help or pointers in the right direction..

5 Comments
2024/02/29
14:23 UTC

1

Read/Write Speed of USB Flash Drive: Noticeable when running Tails OS?

(Assuming flash drive is USB 3.0-3.2, 8GB+, and computer used has good specs)

Lost the tiny little jump drive I had for Tails and need to get a new one. Wondering if any old jump drive will do or if Read/Write speed really makes a difference.

*Forgive me if this has been discussed before but I didn't see anything about it on the Tails website (USB requirements page) or other Reddit posts.

2 Comments
2024/02/29
06:10 UTC

7

Using Unsafe Browser for Hotel Portal "Secure Connection Failed"

lately there are several times I've tried connecting tohotel portals using the tails Unsafe Browser and it keeps sticking me at the page with Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP.

I've turned off HTTPS Only, I've tuned down the TLS settings in config, nothing works. If I turn off TLS entirely I get a new error that there is no common encryption algorithim.

PLEASE HELP!

0 Comments
2024/02/29
02:22 UTC

3

Upgrade to 6.0 failed but working fine

Just upgraded tails to 6.0.

After upgrading it said Tails installation failed. Then i booted the stick up and everything seems fine and its also the 6.0 version installed.

My question is if this is fine now im a bit confused.

2 Comments
2024/02/28
16:02 UTC

4

outdated electrum in tails

Hey dudes,

I was wondering why tails never employs the latest electrum version. Tails 6.0, which was released yesterday, only contains the year old electrum 4.3.4. Why is that and is it still ok to use tails for accessing electrum wallets? I like the concept of having a tails usb stick for managing a wallet but I’m not sure anymore whether it is a good idea to use.

6 Comments
2024/02/28
14:12 UTC

1

Wifi & Downloads

So guys I have two questions

  1. I downloaded Tails on my USB Stick (I use a Mac) everything works. Only problem is that when I’m in Tails. The connection to my wifi is very bad and it is not and my Compiter does not connect to the Wi-Fi. And I always use the correct Password. Should I use a wifi adapter cause I don’t want to use my own phone for usb hotspot?

  2. My friend told me that when I Put out my USB Stick with tails, that all Programms and other data that I downloaded on my Tails OS will get deleted. And when I put it back in everything will look like I never used/downloaded anything. Is that true ? If yes how can I keep my downloads so I don’t have to download everything again? (Maybe a extern hard disk or USB Stick?)

Thankful for any help. Yeah I’m a beginner how you can see and I already read the text attached to this group

4 Comments
2024/02/28
13:47 UTC

31

You are not connected to tor yet

Is it normal for the onion circuits to show you are not connected to tor on tails 6.0 eventhough the browser shows relays? Wired or wireless. Anyone else have this issue?

13 Comments
2024/02/28
07:44 UTC

1

Mac Book Air Keyboard Not Working

I can’t use keyboard from my macbook air while using tails. Mouse courser also just working when I put an external mouse on my macbook air

Sorry for my bad english

Any help is appreciated

2 Comments
2024/02/28
06:55 UTC

1

Help

First of all, hello everyone! Today I installed tails on my USB stick. However, I encountered a problem when I tried to run it. After passing the loading screen, only the mouse is visible on the screen and the screen freezes. Then nothing happens.

My System Specifications: Intel Duo Core 2 Amd Radeon Hd 4570

When I went to Tails' own website, I was told that problems may occur with HD series cards. However, as a suggestion If the computer has another integrated graphics card, try configuring the computer to use it instead of the AMD graphics card. For example, using the following boot option: modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu modprobe.blacklist=radeon just presented this solution. Even though I tried the commands it didn't work. I would be very happy if you could help me, thank you in advance.

7 Comments
2024/02/27
22:55 UTC

5

Monero GUI & Tails Persistence

Updated to Tails 6.0 today and tried to start the official Monero GUI, but the usual Popup asking me to use Tails Persistence (see Image) wouldn't pop up.

https://preview.redd.it/trt9fiyzm6lc1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=8010b4faee05fe0069e165ce22df5b8b223df6b4

Therefore Monero GUI won't save any settings I made. Is this a error only happening to me or everyone?

Thanks in advance for your help

4 Comments
2024/02/27
19:50 UTC

2

TailsOS boots, but gives a black screen

[Solved]

In a previous attempt to launch it, I removed the "quiet" tag from the GRUB menu and it showed all OKs and boots into the loading screen. While loading into tails, I see my mouse cursor for a second or two at most, then the system hangs with a black screen. Removing the USB after the hang shows the usual squashfs errors then the system shuts down.

I know for a fact this USB is fine, as I used it on a different system a week ago. I believe there's some sort of graphics or driver issue, so here are my specs:

Ryzen 7 7840HS NVIDIA 4050 6GB 16 GB RAM

Any help would be appreciated

7 Comments
2024/02/27
16:06 UTC

2

GPG and Yubikey?

New to using both together in kleopatra. I have successfully transferred my private sub keys to my yubikey but the only way to use it seems to be downloading my published key from a key server and then using the yubikey. Is there a better way or will I always have to import my public key to use my yubikey in kleopatra?

0 Comments
2024/02/27
02:05 UTC

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