[[!meta title="How can I trust Tails?"]]

We think that Tails is a trustworthy project because:

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

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.

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

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

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.