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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: P2P on June 01, 2013, 03:51 am
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I have two questions to ask of those who are actively using tails for most of their needs:
1. How can I move files from a TrueCrypt encrypted USB to tails?
2. Is there a way to get torchat on tails? And if not, does this mean torchat is inherently insecure?
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When you get to the tails boot screen (the screen where you can choose "Live" or "Live (failsafe)"), press the tab button on your keyboard.
At the bottom of your screen you will see some writing that ends with "quiet"
Press <spacebar> and type "truecrypt" (without quotes) and press enter.
When you are at your tails desktop go to Application/Accessories/Truecrypt
You can now decrypt your USB drive and move the files to your persistents partition (assuming you have created one)
When it comes to Torchat i can't really help you but i believe the Tails devs left it out for a reason. As far as I know Torchat is junk (according to some well respected forums members here) and isn't really that safe. I'm sure there are guides to installing it on your persistents partition but i wouldn't bother. I'm sure in future Tails releases they will include bitmessage when it becomes more established.
Hope that helps
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Excellent. That is exactly what I was looking for. And yes I had that feeling about torchat. No harm done.
I've got another 2 questions now, though.
After moving everything (copy+paste is all I was able to do. For some reason you can't drag/drop in tails?) to my persistent volume, I now cannot delete things from my Truecrypt mounted USB. Also, certain things that I did delete I cannot empty out of my trash can. It just simply says that it cannot delete the file. Is there a way around this? I was thinking maybe just move my files to the amnesia folder and see what happens, but I'm not sure if that folder is encrypted or not (I sure did not encrypt it) and I need all files to be forensically secure.