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Tails is a portable operating system that protects against
surveillance and censorship.
Tails 4.25 Anonymous Linux OS Released with New Backup Tool for Persistent Storage
AVOID SURVEILLANCE, CENSORSHIP, ADVERTISING, AND VIRUSESTails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship. Enjoy the Internet like it should be. |
YOUR SECURE COMPUTER ANYWHEREShut down the computer and start on your Tails USB stick instead of starting on Windows, macOS, or Linux. Tails leaves no trace on the computer when shut down. |
DIGITAL SECURITY TOOLBOXTails includes a selection of applications to work on sensitive documents and communicate securely. Everything in Tails is ready-to-use and has safe defaults. | 
FREE SOFTWAREYou can download Tails for free and independent security researchers can verify our work. Tails is based on Debian GNU/Linux. |
Who uses Tails
Activistsuse Tails to hide their identities, avoid censorship, and communicate securely. |
Journalists and their sources use Tails to publish sensitive information and access the Internet from unsafe places. |
Domestic violence survivors use Tails to escape surveillance at home. |
Youwhenever you need extra privacy in this digital world. |
How Tails works
Your secure computer anywhereTo use Tails, shut down the computer and start on your Tails USB stick instead of starting on Windows, macOS, or Linux.You can temporarily turn your own computer into a secure machine. You can also stay safe while using the computer of somebody else. | AmnesiaTails always starts from the same clean state and everything you do disappears automatically when you shut down Tails. |
Encrypted Persistent StorageYou can save some of your files and configuration in an encrypted Persistent Storage on the USB stick: your documents, your browser bookmarks, your emails, and even some additional software. | Digital security toolboxTails includes a selection of applications to work on sensitive documents and communicate securely.All the applications are ready-to-use and are configured with safe defaults to prevent mistakes. |
Tor for everythingEverything you do on the Internet from Tails goes through the Tor network. Tor encrypts and anonymizes your connection by passing it through 3 relays. Relays are servers operated by different people and organizations around the world. | Avoid online surveillance and censorshipTor prevents someone watching your Internet connection from learning what you are doing on the Internet.You can avoid censorship because it is impossible for a censor to know which websites you are visiting. |
Avoid tracking and change identityTor also prevents the websites that you are visiting from learning where and who you are, unless you tell them. You can visit websites anonymously or change your identity.Online trackers and advertisers won't be able to follow you around from one website to another anymore. | Transparency to build trustAll the code of our software is public to allow independent security researchers to verify that Tails really works the way it should. |
Top security for freeNobody should have to pay to be safe while using a computer. That is why we are giving out Tails for free and try to make it easy to use by anybody.We are a non-profit and an open community. | Sharing to be strongerTails is built on solid foundations: the Tor network, the Debian operating system, the GNOME desktop environment, and all the tools included in Tails.We share back our improvements with these projects so that many more people can benefit from our work. |
Install from Windows
You Need -
1½ hours in total |
1 USB stick |
a smartphone |
Your Steps -
Download |
Install |
Restart |
Configure |
Restart |
HTTP:
https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/features/index.en.html
HTTP:
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.25/index.en.htmlBackup utility
We added a utility to make a backup of the Persistent Storage to another Tails USB stick.
This utility automates the process described until now in our documentation on making a backup of your Persistent Storage, which used the command line.
Thanks a lot to David A. Wheeler for sending us the initial code!
It's pretty basic, and we still want to do something better in #7049, but we didn't want to wait more because we know that backups are a big issue for our users.
External Hard Disk
We added a new entry called Tails (External Hard Disk) to the GRUB bootloader.
You can use it to start Tails from an external hard disk or one of the few USB sticks that used to return the following error when starting Tails:
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
Changes and updates
Update Tor Browser to 11.0.2.
Update Tor to 0.4.6.8.
Add a shortcut to restart Tails when the Unsafe Browser was not enabled in the Welcome Screen.
Add a link from the error screen of the Tor Connection assistant to our documentation on troubleshooting connecting to Tor.
Fixed problems
For more details, read our changelog.
Fix the display problems in the Unsafe Browser. (#18668)
Known issues
Remove the guest additions of VirtualBox. (#18643)
This breaks the support for mouse pointer integration, shared folders, and shared clipboard.
The VirtualBox guest additions are badly maintained in Debian and not compatible anymore with some recent updates in Debian. We will add them back as soon as the packages in Debian work again in Tails.
The next release, Tails 4.26, is expected next year on January 11th.
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