Ernesto, March 2017

Ernesto is working in the social science department of a University in Latin America where he does communication, web development, and video. He is also active in a local hacklab where he has a community TV and does video editing with free software.

He uses Tails to be able to have a secure access to his personal data from the work computer that he has at the University or when he wants to travel light.

Things he likes:

• Have a full OS on a USB stick is cool!
• All the connections go through Tor.
• Keeping his email configuration and encryption keys in the persistent storage.
• Tails comes with everything you need already. It even has a video editor.
• He liked meeting the developers in person and seeing that we share similar ways of doing things. Now he wonders how he could help back.

Things he dislikes:

• The fact the upgrade mechanism is sometimes automatic and sometimes manual. You never know what to expect.
• The new installation instructions are good for new users but he feels a bit lost when looking for the command line instructions only.