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TailsOS-for-non-whistleblowers/less-wrong.md

  1. The official Tails documentation is less wrong than this repository.
  2. The official Tails documentation and usage with friendly GUIs instead of kung-fu scripting is likely to be less complex than use this repository
    • Do not blame Tails because this repository seems make things hard.
  3. Most warnings when using Tails that you will see are there for an reason and are directed for their end users.
    • You may not care because of your threat model or because you are just testing an OS to run on untrusted hardware, not-so-friendly internet or to deal with offline cryptographic operations
  4. Tails can run from crappy cheap USB sticks resonable fine compared to most live Linux Distros
    • As reference, the tests made by the initial author where made on a 4 USD dolar, 64GB USB stick (around 25MB/s read, 5-7MB/s write) from Aliexpress. (free shipping)
    • Take this as reference (an consider that the initial author intentionally was doing stress tests and trying to break things) before blame Tails.
  5. Tails, if have to fail, is likely to in ways that actually protect security and privacy
    • User don't have option to create non-encrypted persistance. Tails itself may be singe 1.2GB file unencrypted, but near everyting else user create would be either on RAM or encrypted.
  6. Crappy cheap USB sticks can fail. But if they do, is likely to be on writte operations but is more likely than not possible to recover
    • If you is implementing custom software, consider running from RAM and rsync back to disc from time to time. This not only will be faster but make your USB lasts longer.
      • Not all sofware use /tmp. For example docs/vscode-portable-setup.sh freeze sometimes if running not from RAM.