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stopdoingthat

Configuring Tails for everyday/non-anonymous use - any inherent issues with doing this? tips, caveats and comments welcome!

so I've been looking for a persistent live Linux distribution, and it seems that Tails is one of the few that do this. There are only a few others (for, to me, inexplicable reasons), but I'm used to Tails and quite like it. It's very business oriented.

so I figured, With some modification it could be a really cool system for every day use.

Now, I'd love to hear some input and to get a general idea of how this could be done. for instance, I would like to uninstall Tor browser and onion circuit, and install a generic surveillance browser such as chrome, and some other everyday work related things.

Is there any inherent problem with this? Is there something I should need to know or something that I'm missing?

I am fairly comfortable with Linux at this point, though still a novice.

Any comments or suggestions welcome!

Posted Jan 6, 2017, 6:52 PM UTC

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PipeItToDevNull•

It is so specialized I wouldn't try to modify it to be something different. I am fairly confident most anything debian based can be made persistent, just follow this guide from Kali

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Maox•

Thanks!

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YourBrainOnJazz•

You can certainly do vanilla Ubuntu on a USB stick with persistence. Get yourself a 128gb USB 3.1 stick and then put Ubuntu installer on a different stick. Ubuntu with persistence is cool because Ubuntu basically works universally everywhere with little to no tweaking. Ubuntu can still be secure too though, just make sure to encrypt the drive fully while your making it, and use a VPN with Tor anytime you plug that in anywhere and go online. You'll never achieve 100% security, but then again, someone like you who is barely experimenting with Linux is probably not very ripe for the full force of the US Armed Intelligence Services to hunt your USB stick down. Might as well use a distribution that's super user friendly and can still get you everything you want and need.

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stopdoingthatOP•

Cool, thanks for the tip!

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Configuring Tails for everyday/non-anonymous use

stopdoingthat

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