What is Tails

• Operating system on a USB stick designed for privacy and anonymity
• Safe environment for:
  • Anonymous Internet and censorship circumvention (all networking goes through Tor)
  • Working on sensitive documents (leaves no trace on the computer)
  • Using privacy tools preconfigured in Tails (OTR, Enigmail, encrypted partitions, etc.)

What is Tails

• Operating system on a USB stick designed for privacy and anonymity
• Safe environment for:
  • Anonymous Internet and censorship circumvention (all networking goes through Tor)
  • Working on sensitive documents (leaves no trace on the computer)
  • Using privacy tools preconfigured in Tails (OTR, Enigmail, encrypted partitions, etc.)
• 19000 users daily

What brought us here

• UX testing at NUMA in Paris
  • Problems ended being somewhere else
  • No feedback on Tor connection progress
  • People could not connect through the captive portal at NUMA
• Redesign work on Tor Launcher, the Tor configuration tool of Tor Browser
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorLauncherUX2016
  • But in Tails we have to help connecting to the local network first

What we are trying to solve

• No feedback when behind a captive portal
• No feedback when Tor is blocked or censored (and you need a bridge)
• No feedback on whether the connection to Tor is making progress
• Might require actions in very different places
• Allow saving settings for a given network (and reusing the same Tor entry guard)
• Make it easier to circumvent censorship

Let's do an experiment!

• Any kind of questions: what? why?
• Things that you don't understand or doubts
• Suggestions, new ideas, etc.
• Use cases in which the proposal wouldn't work
• Privacy or technical issues behind the proposal
• Missing things