en	[[!meta title="How can I trust Tails?"]]
ru	[[!meta title="Доверие к Tails"]]

en	Tails will never try to harm you or any of our users, as a core principle of our [social contract](https://community.torproject.org/policies/social_contract/). As part of that commitment, we have written this page to help you make an informed decision about whether you can trust Tails.

en	We think that Tails is a trustworthy project because:

en	- **Our work is public**

en	Tails is [[Free Software|about/license]] and security researchers can examine our [[!tails_gitlab tails/tails desc="source code"]].

en	Known issues in Tails are described publicly in our [[!tails_gitlab tails/tails/-/issues desc="GitLab issue tracker"]]. We might hide embargoed security vulnerabilities in Tails while we work on a solution, but only as a way of protecting our users.

en	The most sensitive parts of Tails are explained in our [[design documents|contribute/design]].

en	- **Tails is based on Tor and Debian**

en	The software included in Tails is either written by us or inherited from Debian and other Tor projects:

en	[Debian](https://debian.org/) is the Linux distribution with the most derivatives, including Ubuntu.

en	Debian and its derivatives are [the most popular Linux distributions on web servers](https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux) across the Internet.

en	The Debian project is coordinated over the Internet by a team of volunteers whose work is entirely public. All this makes Debian one of the Free Software projects under the most scrutiny by security researchers.

en	[Tor](https://torproject.org/) is the best anonymity network available.

en	Tails is made by the Tor Project, the same organization that makes the Tor software and *Tor Browser*.

en	Tor has partnered with leading research institutions and has been subjected to intensive academic research. Tor has received awards from institutions such as the [EFF](https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/2012) and the [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-free-software-awards-announced). Even the NSA qualified Tor as "[the King of high secure, low latency Internet Anonymity](https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-high-secure-internet-anonymity)."

en	- **Our downloads are verifiable**

en	Making sure that our users are really downloading an unmodified version of our work is also critical to trust and security:

en	Our downloads are [[reproducible|contribute/build/reproducible]] to make sure that the process of building the downloads from our source code was not altered by our own infrastructure.

en	We provide [[strong and easy-to-use verification mechanisms|contribute/design/download_verification]] to make sure that our users are downloading a genuine copy of Tails.

en	However, Tails, like Debian, includes closed source binary firmware in order to work on as much hardware as possible.

en	- **Tails is recommended by renown and diverse people and organizations**

en	See also our list of [[sponsors]].