Become Invisible Online With Tails OS, Incognito Linux System Recommended by Edward Snowden

welcome to dos geek i'm so excited to do this video i have a lot of history with tails and if you don't know what it is yet just wait you're going to absolutely love this project so i want to start out and say if you haven't watched my videos on tour up to this point and you're not familiar with it you may want to go back and check that out but tails and i have a lot of history because me being a part of the destination linux network me doing the 30 days of linux all of that stuff spawned from somebody leaving a comment on one of my videos where i was talking about how to make windows 10 more secure because back then i wasn't using linux when i first started this youtube channel and they said hey have you ever checked out tails and from there the rest is history you know on the destination linux podcast hardware addicts all the linux stuff that i've done all spawned from that one person leaving that comment so what is tails well it's an amazing project but i think the first thing we need to mention is that on their website they mention specifically the testimonial written by edward snowden it says in 2013 when a small team of journalists and i went head-to-head against the nsa government to reveal the secret system of global mass surveillance we use tails live to communicate so think about that for a second so this when we talked about the anonymous aspect and the more secure way that you can browse with tor and getting onto the dark web this takes this to a whole new layer and that's what we're going to talk about in this video what tails is how you can use it and why it's such an awesome project that you should definitely consider donating to because they're actually doing a fundraiser right now which is a perfect time to do this video so if you have an extra couple coins to throw their way definitely do so let's get into tales you're gonna love it trust me [Music] i feel like i have to start every video when i talk about the dark web or tore out by saying this wanting privacy and wanting to be anonymous does not equate to being a criminal yes criminals will utilize these tools sometimes just like they use the regular internet just like they use teams just like they use a toilet just like they use a sink but that in itself does not make those things evil and in fact if you look at my video where i talk about how to get websites out there on the onion network i want to reverse the trend i want as much positive awesome brain filling family friendly content as we can out there and i'm hoping you will watch that video and go create an onion site to talk about whatever you geek out about whatever you're passionate about so we can start reversing that trend because you know dark web's got that nefarious thing but in any case i wanted to start with that so tails in itself is about privacy about having security in your communications and what you're doing on the internet something everyone should be allowed to have this is something that you get there are laws around for your mail your neighbor can't just go and open your mail anytime they want their federal laws about that why privacy right i've got bills and personal things coming through the mail i don't want people to read same thing on the internet even more so today on the internet everything comes through our email clients and we're doing it through the web and that's what tails kind of provides here now if you look at their website they say you can temporarily turn your computer into a secure machine you can also stay safe while using the computer of somebody else so what tails does is it has amnesia so it's an operating system that you put onto a usb drive you plug it into your computer you boot into it you do whatever you have to do it's going to connect to the tor network and i'm going to show this all to you and do your activities reset your computer you plug that same usb in let's say you made a couple files you sent some communications once you reboot that's gone now there are some options for persistent storage which use high levels of encryption and things like that that you can do if there are files that you want to be persistent or certain programs you want installed persistent it does have those options of course you start lowering the amount of security and privacy that you have as you enable those features but they're there it's amazing so websites you visited even in private mode files that you open even if you delete them passwords even password manager all devices and wi-fi networks that you use it doesn't leave traces like you would on any other computer when you're using tails because it has amnesia it forgets everything once you reboot that's the power of tails and if you want a quick and easy way to get onto the tor network it's got all that stuff done for you so not that it's hard to get on tour download the tor browser utilize brave and navigate to an onion website but this is even kind of the step above and here we talk about the encrypted persistent storage that's available there so if you do have things that you want to store on there maybe it's project that you're working on in certain communications that you have to keep a logo for a certain amount of time you do have that option which i'll show you digital security toolbox tails include the selection applications to work on sensitive documents and communicate securely as well tour browser with you block thunderbird for encrypted emails keepassxc libra office onion share all of those things there don't leave a trace avoid online surveillance and censorship such cool awesome awesome software very easy to get started in i'm going to show it to you right now inside of a vm so let's take a look at what tails actually looks like once you've downloaded it to a usb drive and you've booted into it well i'm not going to go through how to set up and install tails because on their website which i have linked below they have great instructions it's as simple as downloading an app like etcher downloading tails burning it onto a usb drive click a bunch of buttons next next next and you go then you reboot your computer and you boot to that usb drive and you'll see this screen here now you could do that in windows you can do that with the linux machine and you can do that with some not all macs now mac has some additional security things where it doesn't allow you to boot to other operating systems that you can turn off in the operating system and all that but just know for the most part most computers you can get to boot into tails and if your computer doesn't let you boot into tails don't use it the first thing you're going to come across is this welcome to tail screen you've got language option keyboard layout formats that you can choose along with additional settings now for the additional settings let's say you want to install software other things then you would go in here and you could set an administrator password so because it has amnesia and it wants to forget everything you're going to have to do this every time you reboot if you want administrator privileges here but just understand that if you're downloading other software and things and you've got administrative passwords it does lower the security that's why it's an option so if you want to set an administer password administrator password for the first time go ahead and set that here under the additional options you also have the ability to do network connections here connect directly toward network is the default configure toward bridge disable all networking you have other options like unsafe browser here allows you to log into a captive portal you don't have to worry about any of those if that doesn't make any sense to you really you just need to decide whether you want to use an admin password or not and you don't have to set that so you can just go up here with the defaults if all this is good for you and click start tails and you're ready to go so the first thing i do when i get into tails and you notice it had a little pop-up you may have seen it a notification where it's it's saying basically that it is running in a virtual machine it's detected it's running in a virtual machine the first thing i like to do is just go ahead and open the tor browser you can see it says tor is not ready it takes up to 30 seconds a minute sometimes more depending on your network to establish that initial connection i notice at least in a vm environment that it goes faster when you go ahead and click start the tor browser and then wait 30 seconds to a minute and you'll get a message basically telling you that it's got the network set up everything's ready to go because remember this all has amnesia so if you're running on wi-fi you're going to have to go and reconnect to your wi-fi network here it's not going to save that information for you unless you specifically tell it to but again then you're removing some of the security and anonymous and amnesia features that tails has so anytime you're adding things in to make it just like a standard operating system then you're potentially going to lose some of the benefits so while that's establishing a connection here in the vm and i'm only showing in a vm because i can record it more easily obviously this is meant to be run on the usb drive very little system requirements a usb stick of eight gigabytes or more semi decent computer that's less than 10 years old and you're going to be good to go utilizing tails now tails also has fantastic documentation so if you get stuck now typically i know manuals who wants to use them because they're not always that good this is definitely not the case here you have accessibility options for those that need that on here talks about the gnome desktop environment which you can see this kind of a customized gnome desktop environment here if you're familiar with linux encryption and privacy options how to work on sensitive documents and advanced topics here so now you see this message tor is ready you can now access the internet so that lets us know we are ready to get on the internet and if that's one of your sole purposes of coming on here you can go ahead and open up the tour browser and start searching either the onion network or the regular internet now just keep in mind like any of these things if you start logging into a bunch of accounts that's going to make it much easier to find out who you are and this i just want to mention again is their fundraiser five dollars if everyone could donate that if you have that available that would be awesome they certainly deserve it and it's such an awesome project so what you see here if you're familiar with linux at all you've got a calculator you've got where your files are stored if you're saving any files in these locations you've got uh office libra office here so if you want to write some documents uh take some notes you've got audacity so ability to listen to some music watch some videos you have options like the synaptic package manager again you're going to need to have set your admin password before you can use this and keep in mind again this has amnesia so when you first load this up now that we've set our admin password at the beginning it's going to take a while for this to download all of the information and refresh all the different software repositories there so up to seven minutes and then you could search for different applications if there's something you wanted like vlc or sm player or some other tool that's available you could also use the terminal if you're familiar with your basic commands in debian so here is where we can configure a persistent volume what this means is it's going to create a section on this particular usb drive that will allow us to keep files that every time we reboot it will keep those files intact and that includes applications if we want certain applications to install every time as well we have that option too which i'll show you so the first thing it's going to say is beware using persistence has consequences that must be well understood can't help you if you use it wrong see encrypted persistent page of the tails documentation to learn more choose a passphrase so do something big here that you'll remember as your passphrase because it's going to keep this is what's going to keep people out if they ever got a hold of this disk and you were keeping persistent files on here that's what they would have to break in order to get in so then it gives you an option here do we want to keep files stored in the persistent deck directory do we want the welcome screen language administrator password additional settings to be persistent browser bookmarks network connections additional software so if there's particular software every time you want vlc to be installed you can check that there printers thunderbird there's certain accounts and things you want set up every time that you boot bitcoin client this definitely has uses in the cryptocurrency world ssh clients dot files those things you can click save and then you would restart this service and you'll notice over here will become a persistent volume that will become available now i notice this happens quite a bit and keep in mind you're running through the tor network which is a lot slower than your standard internet because of all the proxies and things that it's setting up so if you get this message no big deal you just go through and you can rerun reload this again you see we have some packages that have still showed up even though we got that error message but i've noticed when i've tried to install things once i've got that if it doesn't do a full complete update they may not install correctly so just keep that in mind do a reload let it download all the repositories correctly so you can get all set up all right so if we want to restart we can do that but i want to take you through some more options like onion share this is a file share service through the onion network you don't have to use tails to utilize this but if you have a file that you want to share with somebody you can set a file up and it will basically create a secure link for them to be able to get that file securely okay so you can ignore everything i said because obviously it installed fun even though we were getting the error message so i did have an issue where i was getting that error message and i couldn't install the file because it was missing stuff but it looks like in some cases you can't so if you get the error message go ahead and try that application you want but notice now that we enabled the persistence it says install only once or install every time so i'll go ahead and click install every time we'll have sm player so let's go ahead and i'm going to create a file to show you kind of how this amnesia works we're going to say this is a super secret document that we don't want anyone to read and will self-destruct at reboot a little mission impossible thing here we'll do file we're going to save this under our documents and we're going to call it mission impossible and hit save and so we have our little document there we wanted that document for one time maybe we're going to send it and share it through the onion shared network but we want it to go away so we didn't we don't have persistence enabled because we didn't reboot remember here yet and we didn't put it in the persistent folder we just put it in our documents so if i go to files here you can see that that document mission impossible is there but once i reboot this machine it's going to go away let me show you okay so we're back at our welcome screen if we remembered our persistent password here this is how we decrypt so that we could see our files so we can go ahead and unlock that if you remember that password if you can't then you're in trouble persistent storage is unlocked but remember we had to reboot and we didn't have anything that we moved into that file so we're gonna head without any administrative password this time and then i'm gonna go over to my files and we're gonna see if we have anything there now you can see tor is ready you can now access the internet boom and if i go into my documents that file is gone but look there's a new section now called tor browser persistent and and we also have persistent here file structure so what i want to go ahead and do is create that document again just to show you how this works this is our not so super secret document that i would rather people not read but it's not the end of the world if they get a copy of it so i'm going to do super secret here and this time though i'm going to save it in this persistent folder now if we don't remember our password this is going to be encrypted and be gone but you can see in our persistent in our documents we have nothing but in our persistent we have the super secret document so it's going to store and keep that same thing we could do with favorites or other things we want when this machine first boots up and you can see because we chose at that other screen that we wanted this to install every time it went ahead and installed sm player right as we initialized this usb because we told it we want it to install every time so you can use sm player but be careful with the applications you use because every application you add that hasn't been officially vetted by tails is potentially introducing additional security risk for you but now if we do one more reboot here just to put this point to bed all right so here we are back in tails if i go to persistent you can see our super secret document because again i unlocked it with the encrypted password at the beginning welcome screen is here it stays persistent so we can keep the files that we want now isn't tails just freaking awesome i love it it's awesome they deserve a five dollar donation don't you think you know who else is awesome well our sponsor of course the next 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year a year for a premium account and it's well worth it all of the amazing things the complex passwords the complex and encrypted notes that you can set up in here two-factor authentication makes bit warden just an awesome awesome option okay so tails is awesome tails is that privacy and security that got me into linux in the first place so if you haven't checked out tails go check it out it's an amazing tool like i said keep it on a chain for usb drive keep it in your laptop bag there will always be opportunities where you need some privacy and security and tails will bring that to you and also an awesome and easy way to get on the tour network until next time get out there and fill your brains you

Channel: DASGeek

Views: 159,694

Keywords: privacy, security, tor, darkweb, surveillance, protection on the internet, portable os, most secure operating system, USB drive os, persistance, amnesia, edward snowden, internet privacy, how to stay incognito

Id: YdE4-o2_v14

Length: 18min 46sec (1126 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 12 2021