What we do

Innovate

• Thinking hard about obscure attacks on anonymity such as clock correlation deanonymization attacks and develop countermeasures. See Dev/TimeSync.
• Add support for multiple anonymity networks to cater to different user bases.
• Invent mechanisms for rapid Debian packaging.
  • genmkfile - easy and turbo packaging of scripts and config files
  • Demonstrating how to hassle free write man pages.
    • Example... (Using this for all related Whonix packages.)
    • Written in markdown.
    • Just 3 lines of packaging required.
    • https://github.com/Whonix/tor-ctrl/blob/master/man/tor-ctrl.8.ronn
      • https://github.com/Whonix/tor-ctrl/blob/a12d73ed01068baf32db067811c208034ced87fd/debian/control#L9
      • https://github.com/Whonix/tor-ctrl/blob/1c326b232b1f328a6542ae51f3f3afa3e1e44a55/debian/rules#L17-L18
• Focus on the anonymity and privacy field, not getting into unimportant details. Understand issues regular users are having and create a better UX.
• Develop Concepts:
  • Emergency Security News Notification
  • Permanent Takedown Attack Defender, proposal to defend a permanent takedown threat
  • apt-revoker Check for Revocation Certificates before running apt-get
  • package manager update security on/off switch
  • And much more.

Cooperate

• Reporting issues at other projects, such as:
  • Qubes
  • VirtualBox
• The Tor Project
• Successfully communicate issues in the Tor ecosystem and do so whenever we find something. Some suggestions have been implemented and others accepted.
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?reporter=proper&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?reporter=adrelanos&col=id&col=summary&col=type&col=status&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
• Reported a number of security/privacy/anonymity issues some of them which could lead to deanonymization.

Please press on expand on the right for a list of references.

• • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8751
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8170
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9810
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9811
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6336
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6335
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6337
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6338
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8312
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6210
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7197
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6102
  • https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8213
  • Linux TCP Initial Sequence Numbers may aid correlation

• https://secure-os.org/pipermail/desktops/
• Coordinate an active developer community Whonix team.
• troubadour: https://github.com/troubadoour?tab=repositories
• Flexible packaging to allow cherry-picking of functionality by privacy and non-privacy distros alike: https://github.com/Whonix/anon-meta-packages/blob/master/debian/control
• providing all of Whonix improvements to Debian as reusable (by others) packages split by functionality: https://github.com/Whonix
• Timely review and merging of contributions.

Educate

• Did you know, that using non-anonymous activity in one browser and anonymous activity in another browser at the same time might get you deanonymized? We documented that and lots of other stuff.
• answers are seldom disputed: http://tor.stackexchange.com/users/80/adrelanos?tab=answers
• Run a community, doing user support.
• Extensive Documentation covering technical aspects and operational security.

Maintenance

• Follow developments in anonymity, security and privacy, such as this apt bug, post a news, develop instructions.
• Maintain various components.
• Development. See this subset list of Whonix git commits.
• >100 Whonix source code repositories.
• Keep whonix.org server safe and up to date with various webapps (website, wiki, forums, issue tracker).
• Test new packages.
• Call for, review feedback by, and process feedback by testers.
• Create downloadable Whonix builds.

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