Kicksecure Project Activities: Innovation, Cooperation and Education

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Things the Kicksecure project is working on; Innovate; Cooperate; Mentor; Educate; Maintenance; Research

Kicksecure Project Activities

Innovation

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.
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.
Documentation	Huge wiki. 100's of wiki pages. See Documentation and Design. Lots of Wiki Enhancements.

Cooperation

Table: Kicksecure Cooperation

Category	Description
Issue/bug reports	Reporting issues or bugs at other projects, such as: Qubes VirtualBox
Other collaborative efforts/contributions	kloak https://web.archive.org/web/20170511021801/https://secure-os.org/pipermail/desktops/ zuluCrypt
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

• Google Summer of Code
• Google Season of Docs (GSoD)
• CS Student Capstone (Bachelor's Senior project)

Education

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

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
  • ~ 56 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.

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Research

See Research.

Footnotes

Kicksecure A secure by default operating system with the latest security research in place.

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