Quote:The Tor Project and Tails OS are merging operations to better collaborate for a free internet by protecting users from surveillance and censorship.

The idea of the merger came late last year from Tails, due to the organization outgrowing the existing structure and to protect its workers from the added stress of expanding the framework.

"By joining forces, the Tails team can now focus on their core mission of maintaining and improving Tails OS, exploring more and complementary use cases while benefiting from the larger organizational structure of The Tor Project," the Tails team says.

Tor (The Onion Router) is a global non-profit project that develops online privacy tools, most notably the Tor Browser, which anonymizes internet activity to protect users against tracking and surveillance.

Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a portable Linux-based (Debian) operating system that runs from removable storage media,  and uses the Tor browser to route all data exchanges between the local system and the internet, thus providing a fundamental anonymization layer.