<story><title>Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>One important and often overlooked feature of Tails is when you shut it down it wipes your system memory&amp;#x2F;RAM using sdmem.&lt;p&gt;Your encrypted data and sensitive files are often accessible via memory forensics even if you shut your computer down. Including the websites you visited. Your encryption keys can be in your computers memory for weeks and is easily accessible via a memory dump.&lt;p&gt;This is why people say that with physical access your computer can always be owned. Even if it&amp;#x27;s encrypted. Tails is the only one I know that handles this attack vector by default.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/memory_erasure/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tails.boum.org&amp;#x2F;contribute&amp;#x2F;design&amp;#x2F;memory_erasure&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jebus989</author><text>Impressive how much thought and work has gone into Tails development, e.g. it has a surprisingly-convincing XP skin that hides the fact you&amp;#x27;re even using Linux to the casual observer. Kudos to the devs.</text></comment>