<p>Accessing internal disks of the computer has security implications:
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<ul> <li>You can leave traces of your Tails activities in Tailson the hard disks.</li> <li>If Tails is compromised, a malware could install itself on your usual operating system.</li> <li>If an application in Tails is compromised, it could access private data on your disks and use it to de-anonymize you.</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>You can leave traces of your Tails activities on the hard disks.</li> <li>If Tails is compromised, a malware could install itself on your usual operating system.</li> <li>If an application in Tails is compromised, it could access private data on your disks and use it to deanonymize you.</li> </ul>
<p>If your usual operating system is in hibernation, accessing it might corrupt your file system. Only access your disk if your system was shut down properly.</p>
<p>If you have a GNU/Linux system on your disks, you can only access files owned by the first user (<code>uid=1000</code>with UID 1000) on that system.</p>
<p>In all cases, you might encounter permissions problems. To bypass permission limitations, you can run the <span class="application">Files</span> browser with administration rights.</p>