image is of a early prototype, this work is unfinished

Tails in a box

After noting the technical ability required to download and install tails and the possibility that a person may be tracked at that stage I decided to create a project that would try and make this easier for the person wanting tails. The person wanting tails would then only have to trust the maintainer of the box (or whoever installed and left it). The guidelines I set myself were to make it low cost, non-suspicious hardware that and that the usage by the person wanting tails must be painless.

Materials:

• Pi-Zero
• USB OTG adapter
• Internet access / Wifi for intital setup
• Micro-USB cable
• USB Power supply of at least 1A to be safe
• USB Pendrives of atleast 2GB

Optional:

• Blinkt (for a progress bar)
• HDMI screen and Mini HDMI to HDMI cable (if you aren’t comfortable with terminal)