The goal of this documentation is to present The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) in an easy to understand and reasonably thorough manner in hope to give the new user a crash course in what might be a completely new set of applications and concepts regarding anonymity and security on the Internet.

It will not fully document the applications included in Tails, but rather give an overview of them and go on details only on the Tails-specific configuration.

It is quite long so you might want to not read it in one go but instead read about and warning, as well as the sections on only those applications you intend to use with the possibility to return to it whenever you want to try something new or use it for reference.

If you have experience with these applications and concepts from elsewhere and feel comfortable with the user interface in general, reading this document is maybe not necessary at all. A word of caution to all users is not to alter the network, proxy and firewall settings unless you know what you are doing – poking around with them too much might spoil the built-in defences of Tails.