Install Tails
Install Tails from Windows
You need
1 USB stick
Only for Tails!
8 GB minimum
Windows 7
or later
a smartphone
or a printer
to follow the instructions
1 hour in total
1.3 GB to download
½ hour to install
Your steps
Download Tails
Verify your download
Download balenaEtcher
Install Tails using balenaEtcher
Restart on your Tails USB stick
Welcome to Tails!
Download Tails
Download Tails 5.8 USB image ( 1.3 GB )
or download using BitTorrent
Install Tails from macOS
You need
1 USB stick
Only for Tails!
8 GB minimum
macOS 10.10
Yosemite
or later
Intel processor
not Apple M1 or M2
a smartphone
or a printer
to follow the instructions
1 hour in total
1.3 GB to download
½ hour to install
Your steps
Download Tails
Verify your download
Install balenaEtcher
Install Tails using balenaEtcher
Restart on your Tails USB stick
Welcome to Tails!
Download Tails
Install Tails from Linux
You need
1 USB stick
Only for Tails!
8 GB minimum
Linux
any distribution
a smartphone
or a printer
to follow the instructions
1 hour in total
1.3 GB to download
½ hour to install
Your steps
Download Tails
Verify your download
Install Tails using GNOME Disks
Restart on your Tails USB stick
Welcome to Tails!
Download Tails
How Tails works
Tails always starts from the same clean state and everything you do disappears automatically when you shut down Tails.
Without Tails, almost everything you do can leave traces on the computer:
- Websites that you visited, even in private mode
- Files that you opened, even if you deleted them
- Passwords, even if you use a password manager
- All the devices and Wi-Fi networks that you used
On the contrary, Tails never writes anything to the hard disk and only runs from the memory of the computer. The memory is entirely deleted when you shutdown Tails, erasing all possible traces.
Persistent Storage
You 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.
The Persistent Storage is optional and you always decide what is persistent. Everything else is amnesic.
Digital security toolbox
Tails 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.
Tails includes:
- Tor Browser with uBlock, a secure browser and an ad-blocker
- Thunderbird, for encrypted emails
- KeePassXC, to create and store strong passwords
- LibreOffice, an office suite
- OnionShare, to share files over Tor
- Metadata Cleaner, to remove metadata from files
- and many more!
To prevent mistakes:
- Applications are blocked automatically if they try to connect to the Internet without Tor.
- Everything in the Persistent Storage is encrypted automatically.
- Tails does not write anything to the hard disk. All the memory is deleted when shutting down.
Tor for everything
Everything 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.
A single relay never knows both where the encrypted connection is coming from and where it is going to:
- The 1st relay only knows where you are coming from but not where you are going to.
- This 3rd relay only knows where you are going to but not where you are coming from.
- The connection to the final destination is encrypted whenever possible to prevent the 3rd relay from reading its content.
This way, Tor is secure by design even if a few relays are malicious.
Tor has more than 6 000 relays. Organizations running Tor relays include universities like the MIT, activist groups like Riseup, nonprofits like Derechos Digitales, Internet hosting companies like Private Internet Access, etc. The huge diversity of people and organizations running Tor relays makes it more secure and more sustainable.
Avoid online surveillance and censorship
Tor 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.
If connecting to Tor is blocked or dangerous to use from where you are, for example in some countries with heavy censorship, you can use bridges to hide that you are connected to the Tor network.
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