tails

About Tails

Tails is a portable operating system that protects your privacy and helps you avoid censorship.

• Tails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship. Enjoy the Internet like it should be.
• Shut down the computer and start on your Tails USB stick instead of starting on Windows, macOS, or Linux. Tails leaves no trace on the computer when shut down.
• Tails includes a selection of applications to work on sensitive documents and communicate securely. Everything in Tails is ready-to-use and has safe defaults.
• You can download Tails for free and independent security researchers can verify our work. Tails is based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Learn learn how Tails works

How to contribute to Tails

There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. No effort is too small and whatever you bring to this community will be appreciated.

Find out how you can make a difference in Tails: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/.

How to get started with GitLab

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/GitLab/

How to transition to GitLab

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/GitLab/transition/

License and source code distribution

Tails is Free Software: you can download, use, and share it with no restrictions.

The Tails source code is released under the GNU/GPL (version 3 or above) and is Copyright (C) Tails developers [email protected]. Any exception to this rule is documented either here or in the affected source file. However, Tails includes non-free firmware in order to work on as much hardware as possible.

Contact

email and mailing lists: https://tails.boum.org/about/contact

XMPP: [email protected] and [email protected]