[otagekki]

For your first question, it's a stash at a walkable distance out of your residence. For fingerprints, wrap it up in a condom every time you fetch it. If you live in an apartment complex, store it out of your apartment at a place where people would never look thoroughly: the garbage room, for instance.

There should be a way to make the Tails OS in such a way that each time the USB is plugged in, the contents of the flash drive are moved to your computer RAM, so that if you plug it off without running `shutdown` explicitly, not only you'll shut the computer down in 2 seconds, but your USB is also clean. The `shutdown` command being run with the USB still plugged in then copies the image from RAM back to your thumb drive. Your non-destructive shutdown routine will obviously take a lot longer though.