What you need: 8GB or larger USB stick; Tails operating system; Balena Etcher Time required: One hour
Tails is a privacy-focused operating system. Its name stands for The Amnesic Incognito Live System and it lets you go online anonymously (hence Incognito), making it harder for companies and scammers to track you. Then, when you log off, it forgets (hence Amnesic) everything you’ve just been doing, leaving no traces behind.
Now in its 13th year, it’s just undergone one of its most significant updates, bringing improvements to its Persistent Storage feature that lets you save settings and files so they aren’t affected by the operating system’s Amnesic aspects, and can be reused every time you log in.
Here, we’ll show you how to install Tails so you can browse the web anonymously and explain how Persistent Storage can make using it a more productive and smoother experience.
1 Download Tails and Balena Etcher
There are two ways to use Tails: you can either boot your computer into it, in which case you won’t have access to Windows until you next restart your PC. Or you can install it in a virtual machine, where Tails
