Contributors and Authorship

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Kicksecure is developed by an independent team of contributors committed to computer security.

information Many Kicksecure contributors are or have been Whonix® Contributorsarchive.org.

Current Contributors[edit]

Table: Current Kicksecure Contributors [1]

Name Role
Patrick Schleizer
  • Kicksecure founder and lead developer.
HulaHooparchive.org
  • Kicksecure KVM contributor, miscellaneous.
  • Research.
  • Kicksecure social media administrator.
Jason Ayalaarchive.org
  • Creative consultant.
  • Usability testing and feedback.
  • English language fixes.
nurmagozarchive.org
  • End user support.
  • Testing.
  • Kicksecure wiki screenshots and Libre illustrations.
  • Kicksecure social media administrator.
torjunkiearchive.org
  • Wiki editor and research.
  • Wiki documentation audit.
madaidan archive.org
  • Kernel hardening. [2]
  • AppArmor improvements. [3]
  • Numerous, miscellaneous security commits. [4]
Sirus Shahiniarchive.org
  • tirdadarchive.org (Tirdad kernel module for random ISN generation)
  • Security consultant.
onion_knightarchive.org
  • Host operating system installer, ISO live boot. (Whonix-Hostarchive.org)
Raja Grewalarchive.org
  • Kernel hardening
  • Numerous security improvements

For the full list of Kicksecure components and the respective contributor, see here. [5]

Donors[edit]

New program! Donors are now eligible to be added to a list of our donors. You are making a very important contribution to the maintenance and progress of Kicksecure. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Find out more about our Donor Recognition Program.

Past Contributors[edit]

Kicksecure would not exist in its current form without the significant efforts of numerous contributors from the community. Gratitude is expressed to all past contributors, big or small.

Table: Previous Kicksecure Contributors [6]

Name Contributions
smarm
  • TorBOX wiki editor.
  • English language fixes.
  • python leaktest script creation.
  • Contact: smarm [at] hushmail dot com.
Cypherpunks / Anonymous
  • TorBOX build shell script creation.
  • Initial TorBOX binary releases. [7]
  • Rewrote the TorBOX guide for VirtualBox, instead of VMware. [8]
  • Improved the iptables firewall configuration and added a hardening section. [9]
Joshua
  • Previous forum moderatorarchive.org at the legacy sourceforge Kicksecure forum.
  • Contributed a phone number so the Google+ and Youtube Kicksecure accounts could be created.
  • Documentation feedback.
  • Tested Kicksecure images.
scarp
  • Feedback on Kicksecure source code and change commits.
  • Reviewed Kicksecure build documentation.
  • Tested building Kicksecure from source code.
  • Helped integrate TorChat into Kicksecure.
  • Reviewed matters concerning public relations.
Anonymous
  • Documentation feedback.
CJ
  • Created the original TorBOX logo.
Cuan Knaggs
  • Created the Kicksecure stream isolation graphic.
  • Contact: revolverarchive.org print media for graphical web design, web development, cms and e-commerce.
fortassearchive.org
  • whonix.org server administrator.
WhonixQubes
  • First Whonix® integration into Qubes.
IronSoldier
  • IRC User Support.
Devitra or Lilias_sorcha
Ego archive.org
entropyarchive.org
  • Testing.
  • Forum user support and forum moderator.
troubadourarchive.org
0brand archive.org
mig5
iryarchive.org
Inga Bemman
  • GI Engineer, contributor
Algernon

Project Statements[edit]

The personal opinions of moderators The Web Archive or contributors to the Kicksecure project do not represent the project as a whole.

Footnotes[edit]

  1. Contributors are listed in rough chronological order.
  2. https://forums.whonix.org/t/kernel-hardening/7296archive.org
  3. https://forums.whonix.org/t/apparmor-for-complete-system-including-init-pid1-systemd-everything-full-system-mac-policy/8339archive.org
  4. Including systemd sandboxing, blacklisting of uncommon network protocols, restricting hardware information to root, and more restrictive Kicksecure file permissions.
  5. Interested readers can also refer to a previous forum discussion about Kicksecure contributorsarchive.org.
  6. Contributors are listed in rough chronological order. Please add your name / handle and contribution(s) here if they have not already been listed.
  7. February 2012; TorBOX was a forerunner to Kicksecure.
  8. February 2012.
  9. February 2012.
  10. https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-irc-channel-status/5367archive.org
  11. Past role: Wiki translations coordinator.
  12. Forerunner to Anon Connection Wizard.
  13. See Comments to use Qubes onion repositoryarchive.org.
  14. See Whonix for arm64archive.org.
  15. https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-xfce-development/6213archive.org

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