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Patching a TAILS USB Stick for UEFI Secure Boot on Ubuntu

The current latest release of The Amnesic Incognito Live System is 3.2. Ironically, the ISO of the operating system distribution that is supposed to provide you with security and anonymity does not work with Secure Boot. So, you'll either have to disable your Secure Boot (and become vulnerable to boot attacks that can compromise your anonymity), or patch the TAILS boot partition (e.g., as described below). These instructions are based on patching a USB on a Debian-derived platform, such as Ubuntu. Hopefully, you can adapt them to another platform without too much effort. Create a TAILS USB Stick and Mount Its EFI Partition Create a TAILS USB stick. E.g., follow the instructions on the Tails website to create a USB. Mount the TAILS EFI partition from the USB for modification. Identify the partition device path. You could look at the output of df , mount and use cfdisk , or gparted to identify the device path of the TAILS EFI partition. We sh