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Technical Design and Conception of Kicksecure ™

Technical Design

• systemcheck
• SSL
• Dev/About Computer (In)Security
• VirtualBox
• Dev/Entropy
• Security Reviews and Feedback, Press, Media
• Dev/Expected Build Warnings
• Dev/Relationship With Upstream
• Dev/About Infrastructure
• Trusting Kicksecure ™
• Verified Boot (Secure Boot)
• Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems, Verifiable Systems, Clear Linux, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue
• Automatic Updates (APT) - to Use or Not Use Them
• APT Signing Key Folders
• Package Manager Graphical
• One Click Update Script - Simplified, Assisted Updates
• About Debian Packaging
  • Analyzing Dependency Chains
  • Recommends: vs Depends (--no-install-recommends)
  • ought to avoid writing into linux user /home folder
  • Files in /etc/skel
  • Modifying Default Configuration of Third Party Packages
• Versioning Format Conventions for packages developed under the Kicksecure ™ hat
• Stable Version User Experience
• Coding Style
• RAM Wipe, cryptsetup suspend
• non-freedom, proprietary, closed source firmware, CPU microcode and drivers

Future Technical Design

• Security Roadmap
• Permanent Takedown Attack Defender, proposal to defend a permanent takedown threat
• Project / Emergency News
• apt revoker
• Dev/remount-secure - Secure Mount Options

General Developer Pages

• Developer Portal
• Git branches
• Debian APT Repository on the Blockchain?
• APT Repository (Kicksecure ™ Debian Package Maintenance) (.deb), reprepro
• Hosting a Kicksecure ™ Mirror
• Why we should avoid APT Pinning / preferences / backports by default
• kicksecure.com backup script, to make a backup of most kicksecure.com content
• Qubes Split GPG
• Firewall Refactoring
• Firejail
• Host Keys in various Virtualizers / special keys
• Ledger Hardware Wallet Development Notes
• AEM - anti evil maid
• Boot Clock Randomization
• Boot Modes
• Mobile Operating System Comparison
• Non Anonymous NAT Traversal
• Dev/Licensing
• VirusForget - deactivate malware after reboot from non-root compromise
• bash proper whitespace handling
• certification / audit
  • OpenSCAP
  • lynis
  • harbian-audit - Hardened Debian GNU/Linux distro auditing
• Windows 10 Issues collection
  • https://forums.whonix.org/t/gateway-startup-error-not-syncing-no-working-init-found/9481/11
• Warrant Canary Draft

archived:

• Comparing Password Managers, finding out best choice as default installed one
• grsecurity
• Dev/yubikey
• Dev/Astra Linux

Website Developer Pages

• MediaWiki Developer Notes
• Website Enhancements Planning
• Wiki Editor Documentation
• Wiki Editor Todo
• Documentation Guidelines
• Documentation Markup Format Converters
• OpenPGP Signed Website
• guidelines for advertising on kicksecure.com
• Affiliate Conditions (VPN etc.)
• web.archive.org snapshot using command line interface (CLI)
• Privacy Policy Technical Details of the Kicksecure ™ Website

Download / Installation - Developer Pages

• Download Security
• Software Verification (OpenPGP / gpg) Usability Issues / Secure Downloader to Download Kicksecure ™ Images

Other Related

• Documentation
• Build Documentation, How to build Kicksecure ™ from Source Code, How to update Kicksecure ™ from Source Code
• Kicksecure ™ Source Code
• Kicksecure ™ Developer Meta Files, Scripts for managing the Kicksecure ™ GNU/Linux Distribution
• Maintenance, The Tor Project (TPO) apt repository package mirroring to whonix.org repository, Tor Browser hardcoded version file
• Redistribution Pre Building (Only required if you want to redistribute (official) Kicksecure ™ release builds.)
• Redistribution Post Building (Only required if you want to redistribute (official) Kicksecure ™ release builds.)

Other Unrelated

• Citation, backup of website content license grants
• Edge Security Model (Android Wallet)

Just Listing

• GPLv3

TODO

• https://forums.whonix.org/tag/status_open_issue_todo
• https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/tiger
• https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/tiger-otheros

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