[PolymathGuru]

(02-26-2016 12:49 AM)Thoughtcrime Wrote:  

I appreciate the effort here, but wouldn't it be easier to just run the OS in a VM? VMWare Player and Oracle VirtualBox are free. Even more simple - download a portable version of a browser and keep its files encrypted - maybe on a VeraCrypt (TrueCrypt successor) drive?

There is some risk running TAILS OS through Virtualization. The guys who built the OS have some security concerns regarding this issue.

https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topi...l#security

Quote:

Running Tails inside a virtual machine has various security implications. Depending on the host operating system and your security needs, running Tails in a virtual machine might be dangerous.

• Both the host operating system and the virtualization software are able to monitor what you are doing in Tails.
  

If the host operating system is compromised with a software keylogger or other malware, then it can break the security features of Tails.

Only run Tails in a virtual machine if both the host operating system and the virtualization software are trustworthy.

• Traces of your Tails session are likely to be left on the local hard disk. For example, host operating systems usually use swapping (or paging) which copies part of the RAM to the hard disk.
  

Only run Tails in a virtual machine if leaving traces on the hard disk is not a concern for you.

This is why Tails warns you when it is running inside a virtual machine

The Tails virtual machine does not modify the behaviour of the host operating system and the network traffic of the host is not anonymized. The MAC address of the computer is not modified by the MAC address spoofing feature of Tails when run in a virtual machine.