Tails stands for "The Amnesic Incognito Live System," and the operating system certainly lives up to that name. But what is Tails? Tails is a live operating system, which means it's not installed.

The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, is joining forces with Tails, the maker of a portable operating system that uses Tor. Both organizations seek to ...

Platforms hope by combining, their reach can be expanded, and that the merger ‘will strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship’. CISOs of ...

The Tor Project is merging operations with Tails, a portable Linux-based operating system focused on preserving user privacy and anonymity. The merger comes against a backdrop of ongoing digital ...

Since Tails uses Debian as its foundation, the privacy-focused OS gets all the benefits of the new release. For example, Debian 13 upgrades the Linux kernel from 6.1 to 6.12, which is a long-term ...