TAILS OS: Become Invisible On The Web With This Ultimate Privacy OS (REAL INCOGNITO!)

today it's absolutely normal for you to see an ad on your phone for something that you are searched on your desktop the degree of digital tracking going on here is borderline nefarious most of this tracking is done for the purpose of understanding us better to serve us better ads advertisement is necessary for the web to remain free financially but still someone else having so much information about you watching you tracking your every move on the web can be terrifying then there are things like hacking identity theft online harassment cyber stalking invasion of privacy cyber frauds scams malware ransomware and many other things which force us to be vigilant while you can use things like a vpn or a security browser extension there is an ultimate cyber security solution that will put you pretty much off the grid even edward snowden himself used this operating system to protect himself during his whistleblowing operations introducing the amnesic incognito life system or tails tails is an operating system built for the express purpose of staying anonymous on the web it is a portable system that comes with advanced features like tor to leave zero footprints on the web so let's have a look at this privacy centric os and how awesome it is at keeping you anonymous on the world wide web tails is a debian based linux distro and features a modified gnome desktop environment the interface here is very simple while tails is a special purpose operating system you don't need to learn anything extra here to use it in fact everything is straightforward in tales tails comes with many advanced security features tor being the main all the internet traffic on tails is routed through the tour circuit and what exactly is store you ask traditionally on your normal computer and smartphones when you open a website your internet service provider or isp connects your computer to that website here your isp and the website you connect to know who you are in terms of your ip address and might have access to information such as your approximate location virtual private networks are a popular solution to tackle this issue these vpns act as a middleman between you and the websites you visit and they also hide you from your isp and the website you visit to certain extent by hiding your real ip address but now the vpn you are using has access to that data you have just hidden your data from some people only to expose it to some other people tar on the other hand is something else entirely first of all it's not one entity it's not a company rather it's a community of privacy conscious people with talk you don't connect to the website directly instead you connect to a random tor node which connects to another random tunnel which in turn connects to another tor node which finally connects to the website you want there is no possible way for the website to get your location or track you because as far as that website is concerned it's the last star node which is visiting the website your internet provider cannot track you because they can only see you connecting to some ips somewhere they don't know the full story this becomes particularly useful when you are using public wi-fi where even the wi-fi owner can potentially see what you are doing on the internet and all the data sent on tor is always encrypted so it's gibberish to anybody trying to listen to your data stream tails uses the top browser this is an ultra secure browser which does not allow any website to store cookies or trackers on your computer this is enforced with extreme prejudice so websites cannot track you in any way whatsoever the next feature is amnesia tails is an os that you can run entirely out of an usb stick you do not install anything to the hard disk nor does tails save any data across reboots once you shut down a tail system any data in that system is gone permanently you can see how this coupled with door creates a completely anonymous and stealthy gateway to the world wide web nobody knows your ip your location there is no digital footprint and your digital identity if any is completely gone when you turn off your computer this makes tails the best way to use public computers and machines that are not yours now you might absolutely need to keep some files on this system or install additional applications you can do this tails offers a selective persistent storage which is securely encrypted only the things you hand pick will be stored on the system everything else will be amnesic tails comes with a number of privacy enhancing alternatives for day-to-day applications we use we already talked about the tor browser for emails we have thunderbird with any mail this makes your emails much secure by encrypting them you can also share files with onion share over top this allows you to share files completely anonymously you also get libreoffice for your everyday office needs tails has a strict tour for everything protocol any application that needs to connect to the internet must do so over the tor network only tails does not allow any application to bypass that and connect to the internet directly this makes sure that even any additional applications that you might install will not leak any data about you tails uses open source software only and it itself is open source so you can trust it to protect you tails is optimized to run on a wide variety of hardware that took completely from a usb stake the performance here is good the system is very responsive and feels very nimble the system boots up pretty fast too plug in the pen drive and hit the power button the computer will boot into a tails live session it runs fine on laptops and even lower end hardware since you will not be running any heavy applications on tails the whole experience is quick and good tails is quite easy to set up you need a usb stick download tails from the official website link in the description below [Music] [Music] then plug in your pen drive right click on the downloaded file open with disk image writer select the pen drive and go your tails bootable pen drive will be ready in few minutes then plug in that pen drive to a turned off computer and press the power button the computer will boot into a tail session in some cases you might need to select the pen drive during boot you need to hit either f12 or some other key immediately after pressing the power button to go into boot device selection the key will be device specific so google how to enter boot device selection on your particular computer model you can use tails like this with any computer tails will not touch the hard disk so that computer will be unaffected by anything you do on tails you can boot back into your previous os by restarting the computer with the usb stick pulled out how and when should you use tails first of all tails is not meant to replace your main operating system you cannot use it as your main system it's a specialized operating system whose primary objective is to protect your identity online that's it tails is not for gaming not for media production not for office use and definitely not for everyday home use use it as an additional security module do you use a public computer use it with tails as public computers tend to be more vulnerable the admin of the computer and other users might access your data if you use it normally there might be key loggers or other personal data harvesters booting into tails disables all that stuff if you use public wi-fi it's a good idea to use tails instead of your default system as the owner of the wi-fi can snoop on your device they can know which websites you connect to even see exactly what data you are sending and receiving if it's not encrypted are you working with sensitive information tales tales also enables you to bypass government censorships and firewalls that restrict or monitor your internet traffic this make tales very suitable for journalists and people like edward snowden also i want to make it clear that using tails cannot make you absolutely invisible for example if you log into a website using your credentials it doesn't make a difference if you are using tails or not the website will know it's you it might not know your real location or track you over the internet but you are exposed there tales makes you invisible but the possibility of you exposing yourself knowingly or unknowingly is real use caution use sound judgment and above all don't use tails for anything illegal how secure is your normal operating system should you replace it with tails and use it all the time the state of the world wide web the amount of user data collected by websites it's not ideal major websites collect and process an insane amount of data about you while this is mostly done for the purpose of ads and to provide better service to the user that data can easily be misused so should you use tails all the time no you don't need to use tails all the time you cannot use tails all the time at least you will not be able to get the same experience and convenience for example you cannot use navigation systems on tails as your real location is never made available to the navigation providers a good number of websites need you to log in to use their services using tails and then logging in can defeat the whole anonymity thing most websites today use cookies to work properly as we already saw cookies trackers and all persistent data is eliminated on tables by default so some websites might not work properly most of the data collected by search engines social networks and major web services never gets accessed by a person only computers process that data and since the number of people using these is in billions these websites take adequate actions to protect user privacy linux based operating systems are extremely privacy oriented they are all open source and there are very high standards here to protect the user data non-linux operating systems well they are not open source they are not as secure as linux and they themselves might collect user data overall my personal recommendation is to use tails when you are using public computers or using public wi-fi's you can also use tails when you are dealing with sensitive information tails is really ingenious and robust in protecting your privacy tor and amnesia together provide you with a gateway to the internet that is completely incognito you can bypass censorship by government you can avoid checking you can browse the web with peace of mind knowing that you are secure online well that's it for today if you enjoyed this video do consider hitting the subscribe button below next up check out the top 15 must-have linux applications that will boost your linux experience i thank thomas sparrow for supporting me on patreon much appreciate it this is linuxtex see you in the next one

Channel: Linux Tex

Views: 342,141

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Keywords: TAILS, LINUX, GNOME, INCOGNITO

Id: o2BYWYS73G0

Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 16 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/brianddk]

Warning: Tails does not keep its copy of Electrum up to date. Some times this is not a big deal, other times it can cause truly fatal errors. If your not updating the Electrum AppImage (with PGP verification), your playing with fire.

At a minimum, at least read the relnotes so you are aware of what security issues your backdated wallet is exposed to!

[u/[deleted]]

seems to me that this os will be the most targeted livecd for bitcoin stealing

[u/agumonkey]

tails and tor are not 100% safe

but it's probably in the top 3

[u/lnwlf177]

Remember if you download the TAILS OS from the official site you are almost certainly going to find yourself on certain "lists".

[u/Lemons81]

Dunno but I've tried tails a couple of times, after a few uses or time it fails to connect to TOR nodes and then I need to reflash the USB stick.