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in this video, we want to discuss our 1st steps with tails.

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so assuming you've now started up tails, whether that's in a virtual machine or on a desktop or separate computer or your mac or another way, either way, the startup of tails will be very similar across devices.

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so let's load up our tails instance.

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in this case, we'll be using our virtual machine just to display everything correctly as trying to capture a computer is a little bit more difficult than using a virtual machine.

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so let's take a look at those settings now.

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when you 1st start of tails, you'll see a screen like this.

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you can of course select your language keyboard layout or formats.

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if you need separate support for languages, all you do is click on them and you can select the appropriate language or layout or formats.

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there's also an option for persistent storage.

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this is where you can actually save information on the tails usb stick.

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by default, remember, if you use tails and then unplug that usb stick or power it down, everything you do will be lost unless you have this turned on.

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so you can do this now if you would like, but we're going to wait to do that until a later video.

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and then there are some additional settings here that we can configure.

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we can have mac address anonymization, which means it helps anonymize your mac address.

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if you don't know what that is, i would suggest reading up on that a bit more.

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but this is essentially a unique identifier of your device.

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so randomizing it is important.

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offline mode if you just want to make sure that networking that networking is off by default to use a browser that's not really locked down compared to tor.

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and that way you can get around certain things like captive portals on the network or some other limitations you might have.

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and then there's admin password and network connections you can configure as well.

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we'll ignore most of this for now as we don't want to mess with too much of the default settings.

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all we want to do is start tails and assuming everything is set up correctly, you should see tails launch here in just a moment and you'll see the desktop.

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and there we go.

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we saw a little warning pop up there for just a moment and i don't think i can bring it back.

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but that was warning us that we're in a virtual machine so we can detect that.

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and we also see our option to connect with tor.

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so that's really the initial tails startup.

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the 1st steps are really just click start.

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don't change too much.

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just go ahead and continue and then you should get to a desktop like this.

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now again, it's important to remember that if you were to create a file at this point, let's say you went to the terminal, you know, you looked around.

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let's say we go to desktop and let's say we made a file test.

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txt.

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if we find that here on our desktop, of course it's not in here.

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we see it in the command line, but it doesn't actually show on this desktop here.

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this would go away.

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so if you had a file like this or you had saved passwords, you had email configuration and thunderbird, anything like that is going to go away when you restart tails.

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so in the next section, section four, we actually focus all about persistent storage, how to set it up, how to make it secure, how to use it.

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it's unlikely that you'll use tails often enough to not need persistent storage.

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if you use it often, it's going to be a lot more convenient if you have that storage and you're not resetting stuff up, you're not resetting stuff up every single time.

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if you have any questions, of course, let me know.

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otherwise, i'll see you in the next one.