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Technical Design and Conception of Kicksecure

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• 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
• bootstrappable builds
• 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
• maintainability
• Privacy Goals and Non-Goals
• Coding Style
• RAM Wipe, cryptsetup suspend
• non-freedom, proprietary, closed source firmware, CPU microcode and drivers
• filesystem ext4, btrfs, zfs
• image formats: .iso, .img, .raw

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• Security Roadmap
• Permanent Takedown Attack Defender, proposal to defend a permanent takedown threat
• Project / Emergency News
• apt revoker
• Dev/remount-secure - Secure Mount Options
• Proposal: Base Distribution Developers = Derivative Developers
• Confidential Computing, Secure Cloud, Encrypted RAM, Remote Attestation

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• Developer Portal
• Development of System Image Creation and Bootstrapping Tools
• 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
• Mobile Operating System Comparison
• Non Anonymous NAT Traversal
• Dev/Licensing
• bash script security, proper whitespace handling, use of end of options parameter
• 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
• VirusForget - deactivate malware after reboot from non-root compromise
• Boot Clock Randomization
• user-sysmaint-split - Role-Based Boot Modes (user versus sysmtaint) for Enhanced Security
• Boot Process Related Development Notes
• Open Source Business Models
• Donation systray
• systemd dependency cycles
• seccomp
• audio, ALSA, PulseAudio, PipeWire
• Dev/Debian
• Comparison of secureblue with Kicksecure and Development Notes

archived:

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

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• 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
• Technical Design Documentation about SSL Certificate Pinning

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

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• 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.)
• Network Manager nmcli https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2904

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

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• AGPL-3+

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

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