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[ELE](https://web.archive.org/web/20050422130010/http://www.northernsecurity.net:80/download/ele/), born in 2005 and based on Damn Small Linux, [Anonym.OS](https://web.archive.org/web/20060212030338/http://theory.kaos.to:80/projects.html), born in 2006 and based on OpenBSD, and [Incognito](https://web.archive.org/web/20071213084719/http://www.browseanonymouslyanywhere.com/incognito/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=41), born in 2007 and based on Gentoo, pushed the concept of live operating systems a bit further by focusing on security, online anonymity, and the use of Tor.
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Hey people, it's Tails not TAILS!
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This is how *amnesia* 0.2 and our website looked like in 2009. The browser was *Iceweasel* with *Tor Button* and the Tor controller was *TorK*.
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[[!img amnesia-0.2.png link="no" alt=""]]
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2011-2014: core features, Tails 1.0, and public recognition
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Until Tails 1.0 (April 2014), we would develop most of the core features that make Tails today:
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**Tails Installer**, forked from the [[!wikipedia Fedora_Media_Writer desc="Fedora Live USB Creator"]]
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**Persistence**
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**MAC Spoofing**
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**MAT (Metadata Anonymization Toolkit)**, which was developed by Julien Voisin as a Google Summer of Code with our help in 2011.
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In June 2013, Edward Snowden would reveal thousands of classified documents on the surveillance programs of the NSA. Tails got mentioned by famous technologists [Bruce Schneier](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance) and [Micah Lee](https://freedom.press/news/encryption-works-how-to-protect-your-privacy-and-your-sources-in-the-age-of-nsa-surveillance/) as one of the tools that protect from the NSA surveillance.
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The same month, we launched a [[!tails_blueprint logo desc="logo contest"]]. It was heartwarming to receive 36 very creative proposals. Here are some of the best ones:
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In April 2014, Freedom of the Press Foundation launched the first crowdfunding campaign for Tails and revealed that Tails "has been critical to all of the main NSA journalists". Since then, [Edward Snowden](https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/975827513321623553) and journalists [Laura Poitras](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/7-privacy-tools-essential-making-citizenfour), [Glenn Greenwald](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/7-privacy-tools-essential-making-citizenfour), and [Micah Lee](https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/) have repeatedly stated the importance of Tails for their work and supported us in many ways.
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[[!img snowden-1.jpg size="380x" alt="Snowden plugging an SD card in a laptop with a blue Tails USB stick"]]
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[[!img snowden-2.jpg size="380x" alt="Snowden showing NSA documents on Tails to Ewen MacAskill"]]
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<em>Images from <a href="https://citizenfourfilm.com/">Citizenfour</a> by Laura Poitras, minutes 37 and 41.</em>
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A few weeks later, the release of Tails 1.0 got press coverage on [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/5664884/this-is-the-most-secure-computer-you-ll-ever-own), [CNET](https://www.cnet.com/news/anonymous-os-reportedly-favored-by-nsa-whistle-blower-edward-snowden-reaches-version-1-0/), Boing Boing, and many others. In December, Der Spiegel published internal NSA slides that categorize Tails as "catastrophic impact" and "highest priority":
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