Telecomix Cipher System
From Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau
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[edit] What is it?
The Telecomix operating system is a digital swiss-army knife for secure and private communications in situations of strong surveillance and limited access due to censorship or other network violence by government, corporations, or others.
The home page of the download and support page is system.telecomix.org
[edit] Who makes it? Why?
The Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau have been commissioned to provide means for secure communications for all netizens, jellyfish and internauts. Our mission is to research, enforce and promote the use of encrypted tunnels, cipherspace and distributed communications. Our goal is that every bot and human shall have the means of communicating with each other. However, in the world we live in, this is not yet the case at the ordinary internets. Cipherspace on the other hand does not have these flaws, which is why the Telecomix OS is primary using cipherspace tools to access and host content. Governments, corporations, and possibly even other bodies, are putting the computer networks under surveillance, sometimes leading to imprisonments, torture and repression. We want to contribute to the technological development of crypto munitions that are widely availiable to any internet user. This operating system is one of our efforts.
[edit] Roadmap
- April 2010 - Ver. 0.0 "Ground Zero" - Proof of concept. Was successful.
- April 2010 - Ver. 0.01 "Ash Brown" - Minor but important bugfixes. This is the current version.
- Goal: Version 1.0 - A stable, tested and fully functioning cipher system to be used in harsh environments such as corporate strongholds or oppressive regimes, to free and secure information.
[edit] How can I contribute?
We are currently building a community around the system. We are however not yet completely organized. To be a part of us, please join #telekompaketet on irc.telecomix.org, or if you wish to be completely anonymous (which is totally fine with us), use this guide to connect to us over the i2p-darknet.
Also, we have an e-mail address: info AT werebuild D0T eu
[edit] Planned or requested features (please expand this list)
- Change random MAC-address (and hostname) at every boot - coded, just needs to be implemented (hit up pragmatk)
- Easy-to-use tutorial as a text file on the desktop (or pdf / pop-up like all other distros do)
- Printed handbook to be shipped with the USB-sticks. (re-use the pdf?)
- share anonymous network access via wireless if available. (firewall scripts for bridging wifi, cable, bluetooth, etc)
- Sharing VPN (OpenVPN or PPTP/IPREDATOR) as well!
- Documentation! Ideally publicly available scripts to turn Debian into TCS
- Merge with the ideas from http://pad.telecomix.org/darkdistro / http://pad.telecomix.org/darkdistro-iptables
[edit] Software list (both wanted + installed)
[edit] Already installed
- Thunderbird
- I2P
- Iceweasel (Firefox)
- Tor
- Vidalia
- Pidgin (good all-around IM program, not so good at rapid conversations such as what's encountered in crowdy irc channels)
[edit] Wanted
- Off-The-Record (OTR) plugin for Pidgin
- One-time pad encryption plugin for Pidgin Pidgin-Paranoia (way cooler than OTR)
- BitCoin (for anonymous P2P payments)
- I2P-Bote
- I2PSnark
- ?iMule?
- PGP integrated to a Email Client
- (P2P text only gnutella? [only for worddocs, textfiles, pdfs, and html pages])
- srly is there even a VM edition for this? e.g. using QEMU? It would make it more palatable for window users.
- This page is about building vm:s for running insied other OS:es http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
