[[!img amnesia.png link="no" class="svg" alt=""]] <i class="metaphor">Like a tent, Tails is amnesic: it always starts empty and leaves no trace when you leave.</i>
[[!img persistent-storage.png link="no" class="svg" alt=""]] <i class="metaphor">Like a backpack, you can store your personal things in your Persistent Storage and use them in your tent.</i>
Tor also prevents the websites that you are visiting from learning <strong><i>where</i> and <i>who</i> you are</strong>, unless you tell them. You can visit websites <strong>anonymously or change your identity</strong>.
Support for both [[!wikipedia Linux_Unified_Key_Setup desc="LUKS"]] and [VeraCrypt](https://veracrypt.fr) encrypted volumes (like USB sticks) ([[More...|doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes]])
To install additional software automatically when starting Tails, use the [[Additional Software|persistent_storage/additional_software]] feature of the Persistent Storage.
The [[!tails_gitweb config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/tails/chroot-browsers/unsafe-browser/extensions/red-2.0-an+fx.xpi desc="red theme"]] used by Tails' _Unsafe Browser_ was downloaded from Mozilla add-ons website (<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simplyred/>):
The drawings on our [[Home|index]], [[About|about]], and [[Warnings|doc/about/warnings]] pages are licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), copyright [Andrés Fernández Cordón](https://anhdres.com/)([[source|lib/drawings.zip]] for Adobe Illustrator).
All the [[drawings of our personas|contribute/personas]] are licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), copyright Thomas Verguet.
The [[Boot Menu animation|doc/first_steps/start/pc#animation]] is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), copyright [Odile Carabantes](https://studiomoare.com/) and Enso Studio ([source](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/ux/-/raw/master/boot%20menu%20key/animation.rar)for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premiere).
Tails is safer than any regular operating system. But Tails, or any software or operating system, cannot protect you from everything—even if they pretend to.
To remember the password for Wi-Fi networks and custom network configurations across different Tails sessions, turn on the [[Network Connections|persistent_storage/configure#network_connections]] feature of the Persistent Storage.