Tails will never try to harm you or any of our users, as a core principle of our Social Contract. As part of that commitment, we have written this page to help you make an informed decision about whether you can trust Tails.

We think that Tails is a trustworthy project because:

• Our work is public

  • Tails is Free Software and security researchers can examine our source code.

  • Known issues in Tails are described publicly in our GitLab issue tracker. We might hide embargoed security vulnerabilities in Tails while we work on a solution, but only as a way of protecting our users.

  • The most sensitive parts of Tails are explained in our design documents.

• Tails is based on Tor and Debian

  Most of the software included in Tails has not been written by us, but is inherited from Tor and Debian:

  • Debian is one of the oldest Linux distributions and the one with the most derivatives, including Ubuntu. Debian and its derivatives are the most popular Linux distributions on web servers across the Internet. The Debian project is coordinated over the Internet by a team of volunteers whose work is entirely public. All this makes Debian one of the Free Software projects under the most scrutiny by security researchers.

  • Tor is the best anonymity network available. Tor has partnered with leading research institutions and has been subjected to intensive academic research. Tor has received awards from institutions such as the EFF and the Free Software Foundation. Even the NSA qualified Tor as "the King of high secure, low latency Internet Anonymity."

• Our downloads are verifiable

  Making sure that our users are really downloading an unmodified version of our work is also critical to trust and security:

  • Our downloads are reproducible to make sure that the process of building the downloads from our source code was not altered by our own infrastructure.

  • We provide strong and easy-to-use verification mechanisms to make sure that our users are downloading a genuine copy of Tails.

• Tails is recommended by renown and diverse people and organizations

  See also our list of sponsors.

Что говорит нам статистика раскрытия источников информации с 2013 года? Если вы хотите сохранить анонимность, ваша первоочередная задача — уменьшить число таких рабочих ситуаций, где вы можете совершить ошибку. Именно это предлагают Tor и Tails.

— Эдвард Сноуден,
источник информации в АНБ

Tails применяет защитные возможности Tor к целой операционной системе. Разработчики обладают непоколебимой приверженностью своей общественной миссии. Среди дружественных Tor программ мы больше всего любим Tails.

— Роджер Динглдайн,
сооснователь Tor Project

Один из наиболее продуманных способов использования сети Tor – специально подготовленная операционная система с эффективными настройками по умолчанию для защиты приватности и обеспечения безопасности. Это Tails.

— EFF,
Electronic Frontier Foundation