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

Many Kicksecure contributors are or have been Whonix^® Contributors.

Current Contributors

Table: Current Kicksecure Contributors

Name	Role
Patrick Schleizer	Kicksecure founder and lead developer.
HulaHoop	Kicksecure KVM contributor, miscellaneous. Research. Kicksecure social media administrator.
Jason Ayala	Creative consultant. Usability testing and feedback. English language fixes.
nurmagoz	End user support. Testing. Kicksecure wiki screenshots and Libre illustrations. Kicksecure social media administrator.
torjunkie	Wiki editor and research. Wiki documentation audit.
madaidan	Kernel hardening. AppArmor improvements. Numerous, miscellaneous security commits.
Sirus Shahini	tirdad (Tirdad kernel module for random ISN generation) Security consultant.
onion_knight	Host operating system installer, ISO live boot. (Whonix-Host)
Raja Grewal	Kernel hardening Numerous security improvements

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

Donors

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

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

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. Rewrote the TorBOX guide for VirtualBox, instead of VMware. Improved the iptables firewall configuration and added a hardening section.
Joshua	Previous forum moderator 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: revolver print media for graphical web design, web development, cms and e-commerce.
fortasse	whonix.org server administrator.
WhonixQubes	First Whonix® integration into Qubes.
IronSoldier	IRC User Support.
Devitra or Lilias_sorcha	IRC User Support.
Ego	Whonix® Windows installer. Forum user support and forum moderator.
entropy	Testing. Forum user support and forum moderator.
troubadour	Tor Controller GUI and sdwdate-GUI contributor. AppArmor profiles. Kicksecure Setup Wizard. msgdispatcher_dispatch_x sdwdate-gui Tor Controller GUI Miscellaneous.
0brand	Testing, miscellaneous commits. Wiki editor and research. Forum user support and forum moderator. Whonix Windows Installer
mig5	OnionShare contributor.
iry	Anon Connection Wizard contributor. Miscellaneous.
Inga Bemman	GI Engineer, contributor
Algernon	Live Mode contributor. Kicksecure CLI contributor. Raspberry Pi Kicksecure contributor. Xfce Desktop Environment.

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