What we do

Innovate[edit]

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.

Cooperate[edit]

Reporting issues at other projects, such as:
- Qubes
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://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[edit]

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.

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