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has been part of the Tails documentation translation team since 2016, contributing to the spread of consciousness about rights in the use of the Internet and digital self-defense workshops, both about avoiding tracking by GAFAMs (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) and about self-defense of bloggers, journalists, doctors, lawyers, and people active in human rights advocacy or in conflict zones.
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Tails, The Amnesico Incognito Live System https://tails.net/
Introduction to the Tails live operating system. Amnesico: in that it can be used without saving any data from the current session; Incognito: automatically uses connections to the Internet via Tor, a popular anonymized network; Live System: fits on a USB stick and can be used on different computers without leaving a trace on the hardware itself.
The most famous case of its use, was in 2013 i.e. journalist Laura Poitras used it to establish communications with Edward Snowden that led to the publication of important documents documenting illegal activities of the American NSA, National Security Agency. Since then this Debian-based Linux distribution has been under continuous development and maintenance, during the talk we will see together the advanced tools that are inside and 3 demos based on use cases. Tails' current usage of 750,346 times in June 2023. This is a daily average of more than 25,012 boots.