Tails

Tails provides a platform to solve many digital threats by “doing the right thing” out of the box by default, protecting even less tech-savvy users from the most likely and highest impact risks.

Tails is a secure bootable operating system which can be started on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. Tails aims at preserving privacy and anonymity online, and allows to: * Use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor privacy enhancing and anti-censorship network. * Leave no trace on the computer by default. * Use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt files, emails and instant messaging.

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Funding to date

2015 $208,000.00 18 months

Total Funding: $208,000.00

Addressed problems

Restrictive Internet filtering by technical methods (IP blocking, DNS filtering, TCP RST, DPI, etc.)
Blocking, filtering, or modification of political, social, and/or religious content (including apps)
Repressive surveillance or monitoring of communication
Other

Objective(s)

Technology development

Beneficiaries

General public

Region(s) archive

Global

Technology attributes

Anonymity
Cryptography
Other
Sensitive data