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Tails boots from a USB stick, routes everything through Tor and forgets when you shut down. What it takes to set up and where its limits are.

3 verified addresses published // 8 access routes // 6 setup steps // no accounts, no forms, nothing collected

Nexus Market onion addresses

All three reach the same market with the same account, balance and orders behind each. Copy one rather than typing it, then confirm it on the login screen before you sign in.

[01]nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onion

[02]nexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onion

[03]nexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onion

Read this before signing in Open these in Tor Browser only. When the login screen loads, compare the onion printed on the page against your browser address bar, reading from the end backwards. A copied page reproduces the design perfectly and cannot sit at the real address. If they differ, close the tab.

A whole operating system that lives on a USB stick, sends everything through Tor, and forgets the session the moment you power off. For this kind of use it is the strongest sensible option, and it takes about forty minutes to prepare once.

What it actually does

You boot from the stick rather than from the computer hard drive. The installed operating system is untouched and does not run. Everything the session does lives in memory, all network traffic goes through Tor whether the application asked for it or not, and when you shut down the memory is wiped. The machine you used has no record of the session.

What it takes

A USB stick of at least eight gigabytes that you are willing to dedicate to this.
The Tails image from the project site, verified before writing it.
A tool to write the image to the stick, which the project documents for each platform.
A computer that will boot from USB, which usually means pressing a key at startup to pick the boot device.

Persistent storage, and whether you want it

Tails can keep an encrypted area on the stick for bookmarks and files across sessions. That is convenient and it is also the one thing that survives, so it is worth deciding deliberately. For most people a small persistent area holding nothing but the three addresses is a reasonable trade. Storing anything you would not want found is not.

The limits

It protects the session, not you. Signing into an account that identifies you undoes it instantly.
It does not defend against a compromised computer firmware, which is rare and worth knowing about anyway.
It is slower than a normal desktop, because it runs from a USB stick and routes everything through Tor.

Why it suits this use

Because the biggest practical risk on a desktop is not the network, it is the machine remembering. Tails removes that entire category of problem rather than managing it. That is a bigger improvement than any browser setting.