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> Use a secure OS... A liveUSB of Tails is pretty idiot proof.

That implies Tails is very secure. Why is that? Is it because it has never been hacked before or has Tails been shown to be virtually hacker-proof? As someone non-technical I might be misunderstanding something. If so, can you clarify that?

Thanks.

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Tails is intended to be run on a USB drive. This means you can take nearly any computer, boot to usb, and have a operating system designed for security running in the computer's RAM. Many claim that this does not leave a trace of your activity in the computer itself.

It also comes with tor browser, electrum bitcoin wallet, and some GPG utilities preinstalled.

Tails works well enough for the average noob. It isn't perfect, but a far cry better than them running torbrowser on their everyday windows machine.

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