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Kicksecure ™ Project Activities[edit]

Innovation[edit]

Table: Kicksecure ™ Innovation

Category	Description
Invent mechanisms for rapid Debian packaging	genmkfile - easy and turbo packaging of scripts and configuration files. Demonstrating how to write hassle free man pages. For example, the following methodology is used for all related Kicksecure ™ packages. Written in markdown. Just three lines of packaging is required. https://github.com/Kicksecure/tor-ctrl/blob/master/man/tor-ctrl.8.ronn https://github.com/Kicksecure/tor-ctrl/blob/a12d73ed01068baf32db067811c208034ced87fd/debian/control#L9 https://github.com/Kicksecure/tor-ctrl/blob/1c326b232b1f328a6542ae51f3f3afa3e1e44a55/debian/rules#L17-L18
Holistic focus	Focusing on the security field, without getting into unimportant details. Understanding issues regular users are experiencing and creating a better user experience.
Develop concepts	Emergency Security News Notification Permanent Takedown Attack Defender, proposal to defend against a permanent takedown threat apt-revoker Check for Revocation Certificates before running `apt` Package manager update security on/off switch And much more.
Miscellaneous	Maintaining a general interest in security matters, scrutinizing solutions, and connecting people. ^[1]

Cooperation[edit]

Table: Kicksecure ™ Cooperation

Category	Description
Issue/bug reports	Reporting issues or bugs at other projects, such as: Qubes VirtualBox
Other collaborative efforts/contributions	kloak ^[2] https://secure-os.org/pipermail/desktops/ zuluCrypt ^[3]
Developer community	Coordination of an active developer community, see: Kicksecure ™ contributors. Kicksecure ™ contributions: founder adrelanos developer troubadour developer madaidan former developer 0brand developer HulaHoop developer Jason Ayala developer Algernon developer Sirus Shahini incomplete list
Miscellaneous	Flexible packaging to allow cherry-picking of functionality by privacy and non-privacy distributions alike: https://github.com/Kicksecure/kicksecure-meta-packages/blob/master/debian/control Providing all Kicksecure ™ improvements to Debian as reusable (by others) packages split by functionality: https://github.com/Kicksecure Use many packages developed by Kicksecure ™ with Debian too. Timely review and merging of contributions.

Mentoring[edit]

Education[edit]

Kicksecure ™ undertakes a broad range of educational activities, including:

Extensive Documentation covering technical aspects and operational security.
- Security matter are documented in detail, including unique material not covered elsewhere.
- Technical documentation is also provided, for example: Configuration Files.
Kicksecure ™ answers are seldom disputed; for example see answers by Patrick Schleizer on Tor Stack Exchange.
Operating a responsive forum, providing user support for the community.
Debian derivative development documentation, for example: About Debian Packaging

Maintenance[edit]

Kicksecure ™ maintenance activities are wide in scope and include:

Following developments in security and formulating solutions. For example this apt bug led to the posting of a news item and instructions to safely resolve the matter.
Maintaining various components.
Ongoing development:
- Refer to this subset list of Kicksecure ™ git commits; and
- ~ 85 Kicksecure ™ source code repositories.
Keeping the kicksecure.com server safe and up-to-date with various webapps (website, wiki, forums and issue tracker).
Testing new packages.
Calling for testers, then reviewing and processing feedback from testers.
Creating downloadable Kicksecure ™ builds.
Keeping the community informed about recent developments at Kicksecure ™.
Porting to the next stable version of Debian. ^[4]

TODO expand

Research[edit]

See Research.

Footnotes[edit]

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[1] ttps://forums.whonix.org/t/jitterentropy-rngd/7204

[2] 
https://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/pull/5

https://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/issues/10

https://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+author%3Aadrelanos+

https://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+author%3Aadrelanos+

[3] ttps://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/pull/5

[4] ttps://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/issues/10

[5] ttps://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+author%3Aadrelanos+

[6] ttps://github.com/vmonaco/kloak/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+author%3Aadrelanos+

[3] 
https://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/issues/114

https://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/issues/115

[8] ttps://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/issues/114

[9] ttps://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/issues/115

[4] ttps://forums.whonix.org/t/port-whonix-from-debian-stretch-to-debian-buster/7101

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Kicksecure ™ Project Activities: Innovation, Cooperation and Education