“Tails”, the amnesiac OS

We love social media; it allows us to share everything that happens to us. However, at the same time, we live waiting for Protect our privacy. We don't want to be robbed, we think. Obviously we want to control what we share. We want to be the masters and lords of everything around us, but that is not always possible. It is not a question of alarming anyone, but our trail on the Internet can be followed with relative ease, since there are quite a few websites that track our movements and store sensitive information about us. For those who are more wary of their privacy, there is Tails an operating system that makes you completely invisible.

Tails It is an operating system that can be carried on a USB and that, as its own developers affirm, “helps you to browse anonymously and bypass censorship almost anywhere you are and on any computer, but without leaving a trace unless you want to do so. It is an operating system designed entirely to be used from a DVD, USB flash drive or SD card, regardless of the computer’s original operating system.”

Based on open source Linux, uses the Tor software to browse and maintain your anonymity, and, as we could read on the specialized portal Gizmodo, it is also supported by different programs such as Pretty Good Privacy or PGP or the KeePassX password management system and the Off-the-Record plug-in to encrypt chats. All of this with the main mission of preserving your privacy and making you totally invisible to search engines and trackers on the network. Also, to give even greater guarantee of privacy, the creators of Tails ensure that the computer's hard drive is never used, so the only storage space that is used is the RAM memory. This is automatically deleted when the computer is turned off. With this, they ensure that there will be no trace of what may have been done. That's why its creators call it an "amnesiac" operating system.

Obviously, however, there are some doubts about Tails itself and the use its creators can make of the information it can store without its users knowing, if it stores it at all. In fact, it practically Everything surrounding this operating system is a kind of secret since the identity of its developers is not even known.They say it's to keep this operating system out of the hands of governments... Conspiracy theories aside, Tails seems to be a good option for anyone who wants to keep their privacy safe.

If not... maybe Edward Snowden would not be one of its most recognized users.