Questions tagged [tails-os]
Tails is a Linux live distribution preconfigured for privacy and anonimity.
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can the persistent storage on tails-os be configured to use yubikey to unlock?
I use tails-os with persistent storage to keep sensitive data secure but relatively easy to access on an airgapped laptop.
I might be pissing up a rope here, but I wonder if it might be possible to ...
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tails booting issue
im getting this error while booting tails from a usb stick. i tried the same usb with another laptop it works fine. but trying with my asus g14 its not working, the error is shown in the screenshot. ...
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tails-os is not flashing into a usb
I am trying to create bootable live tails usb. I downloaded tails-amd64-6.10.img from here.
I verified the download:
I used balena etcher and got this error:
Since it did not work, I also downloaded ...
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How to get detailed diagnostics of WiFi connection problems from the terminal?
I've been trying for days to connect a live Tails system to a mobile WiFi hotspot on an Android 9.0 device without success. What I have done so far:
Set up a mobile WiFi hotspot in Android protected ...
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Tails - How to disable MAC address randomization?
I am trying out Tails and disabled the MAC address randomization feature during boot, but when doing ip addr in the terminal, the MAC address of wlan0 (WiFi adapter) keeps changing regardless. This is ...
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Tails not booting using USB - stuck at systemd-journald.service/start
I downloaded the official tails 6.6 image file here. And followed all the steps mentioned and made my bootable usb drive.
But when I booted it on my laptop it did not boot for hours. I checked the log ...
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what dotfile can do in the tails
when the user read thier section of the Persistent Storage he will see they explain about Dotfiles as a way to save configurtion of the apps can it save the log in in websites or it just save the ...
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how may I find the filesystem image of the OS with initramfs
I want to install Tails on my Hard Drive alongside Kali Linux.
So I installed Kali on the system and prepared Grub2.
I also created a partition of 3GB for my Tails installation, formatted it to FAT32, ...
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Restore from Full Disk Image to Single Partition
For major version upgrades, Tails recommends this convoluted upgrade path where you write an image on a fresh USB drive, then clone the OS partition onto your original USB drive. I'm trying to figure ...
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Does this dmesg log show files being transferred?
An issue was recently opened on the GitHub page for the privacy-focused VirtualBox wrapper HiddenVM. The opener posts what he claims to be indication of files from his local cache being sent to an ...
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Concerning tails os and proxychains - getting denied connection
I've been trying to run a wallet app in tails os ver 4.28 with no success. I'm getting denied error when using it with proxychains. Being a noob here, would someone assist me in letting me know what I'...
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Make npm work in tails
The latest tails comes with nodejs v10.24.0. Trying to get tails to run a newer node has been unsuccessful even after running script from deb.nodesource.com/setup_14x which said buster was unsupported....
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Boot arch from usb stick
I am currently running windows 10 on my computer and looking into running Linux. I do not want to make the jump and potentially lose data and for my steam games to stop working. Is there any way I can ...
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USB-hosted distro with selective persistence
I really like Tails. Specifically, I like that I start with a fresh, clean OS each time I boot up from USB and that it let's me choose what persists, so that I can have software that persists, but ...
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Installing orca on Debian Based Systems (TAILS / Whonix)
I am wanting to install a screen reader for TAILS and/or Whonix.
Here is the project:
https://github.com/GNOME/orca
Here are Dependencies
Orca v3.39.x is supported on GNOME 3.39.x only. We highly ...
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