Please make it clear that when you click "Download Tails 1.0" what you get is not (or may not be?) a version of Tails 1.0 that is ready to load onto a USB thumb drive and use to boot a computer into Tails. What I got was a Roxio-ready program that burned a DVD-R that can be used as a boot disk to start Tails. That's what I seem to have downloaded onto a USB thumb drive this afternoon using a computer at work that runs Linux. I think I tested it with the authentication key - something I tested got me a message that said it passed. I used a computer running Linux because the authenticity testing seemed simpler on Linux than on Windows. But then I tried to use that thumb drive as a boot drive. That didn't work in any computer. Nothing worked until this evening when I tried the thumb drive on a computer at home that has Roxio installed. Almost as soon as I clicked on the file in the thumb drive, Roxio started up and asked for a DVD-R to burn. That DVD worked as a boot disk on several computers, booting up Tails 1.0. But the computers all ran slow, with the optical drive reading the DVD making a good bit of noise as it stumbled around on the disk. Then I transferred the contents of that boot disk DVD to a different USB thumb drive. When I figured out how to get several different computers (two Dell, one xpc, and one "white box") to boot from the USB thumb drive I was again able to boot up Tails 1.0. Tails seemed to run faster, or at least quieter, running from a flash drive compared to from a DVD. I tried to make a second USB flash drive that would boot up Tails 1.0. It took me the better part of an hour to realize that the second flash drive was defective. Now I'm shopping for a fast-reading USB 3.0 flash drive to use to run on computers that have USB 3.0 ports. I have several computers that run Windows XP. For security, I've disconnected them from the internet, but I think it will still be safe to use them online occasionally as long as they're running Tails. Thank you very much for making those computers still safe (I hope) on the internet.
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