% Tails — Privacy for anyone anywhere % intrigeri % January, 2015

What what who

Who I am

• Tails contributor
• Debian developer
• ...

What is Tails

The Amnesic Incognito Live System

https://tails.boum.org/

A Live operating system

• works on (almost) any computer
• starts from a DVD, a USB stick, or a SD card

Preserving privacy and anonymity #1

• use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship:
  all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network
• leave no trace on the computer you are using,
  unless you ask it explicitly

Preserving privacy and anonymity #2

• cryptographic tools:
  encrypt files, email and instant messaging
• media production tools:
  sound, video, office publishing, graphics...

Other features

• exists since 2009
• translated into many languages
• Free Software

Cadence & popularity

• release every 6 weeks
• about 11k boots a day, doubles every year

Who uses Tails?

• Activists organizing in repressive contexts
• People facing Internet censorship
• Domestic violence survivors escaping from their abusers
• Journalists wanting to protect themselves or their sources
• etc.

And... it works?

According to the NSA, yes :

ranked as "catastrophic," leading to a "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence..."

:)

In other words...

We can beat them.

...

(together)

Collective matters

Our starting point

privacy and anonymity: collective matters

Usability

⇒ privacy and anonymity tools must be usable
by a broad audience

Mutual aid

• social installation and upgrade process
• local collectives provide support to users
• local collectives provide feedback to the project

Inclusive project

• not purely a project with (political) friends
• public and open development:
  Git, Redmine, meetings and roadmap
• design documentation : https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/
• trying to improve diversity in our community

Tails needs you

How you can help

• Translation
• Documentation
• Testing
• Web and graphics design
• Usability
• Code
• Infrastructure
• Debian
• Money

Where to start?

• https://tails.boum.org/contribute/
• Tell us about your skills and desires,
  we'll help you get started :)

Talk to us

• I'm here.
• Development mailing-list: tails-dev@boum.org
• Private and encrypted mailing-list: tails@boum.org
• Web: https://tails.boum.org/