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• Kluster

Kluster is a platform VMarks has found and we would like to demo it for some decisions in the group. You may need to create an account with them: https://paranoidlinux.kluster.com/ and the "passcode" is "bazaar".

• Debian

We have strong indications to choose Debian Testing as the distribution we would like to fork from. We will improve security, anonymity, and automatic configuration. Other goals have been passed around.

• Nothing is final.

cuz i have em. dirty. disjointed. days of conversation on end with the most random breaks. but they exist. comments will decide whether or not they get posted.

A good number of people think that chaff is an important place for us to concentrate. It is not. Here's why.

Hello Hungarians! Hopefully this site will become translatable for some basic content that explains the website and the project. If you are multi-lingual and would like to help with this effort, please join us on IRC. (#paranoidlinux on irc.freenode.net)

Good day and have a safe one,
Jrabbit

We'll discuss some of the earliest necessary decisions such as which desktop and window managers to use. This should help narrow future package selection in future meetings.

UPDATE: For results, see software

ParanoidLinux is about privacy. Your privacy. There are those who would take this basic right away from you without thinking twice.

Our goals are security focused, but not quite with the same meaning as "a computer secure from network attack." Our brand of security is privacy focused.

We want to make it simple to communicate privately with trusted friends with a very high level of assurance that messages cannot be intercepted by a third party. Making secure communications simple and enabled by default is a primary goal of the project.

I felt I should give a blog entry for those who are not active in IRC, but are still interested in this project.

We are moving forward. We may not have daily updates, or tons of progress to date (yet), but the mapping out of a project, either mentally or on a wiki, is probably the most important step. It could quite literally make or break a project. Please be patient while we dig in to this vital step in the project's life and stay tuned to the blog for more updates.

Keep safe. Stay Paranoid.

Powerking :)

So... The IRC room has been abuzz about chaff and our darknet ideas.
Netzapper said he wants to work on chaff, and RK said he and I know a pro who could probably contribute significantly. That's great. I've been pushing the darknet stuff, so I went over to #freenet and did some research. Copypasta below.

WARNING: UNEDITED CHATROOM PASTE BELOW

(02:03:34 AM) Me: wanna swap refs?
(02:03:35 AM) Me: :)
(02:03:47 AM) tigerle: nope thx
(02:05:27 AM) Me: is the opennet insecure?
(02:05:42 AM) Me: is it rsa encrypted?
(02:05:57 AM) tigerle: puh too technical questions for me *g*

We on the ParanoidLinux team are a little star struck that Cory seems to like our idea! So here's the juicy gossip.

Dave Fletcher  	Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:23 PM
To: doctorow@craphound.com
Hello Mr. Doctorow.

Several BoingBoing readers were talking in the new #boingboing IRC
channel about Little Brother and have decided it would be really great
to actually create it! So we've started a new Debian based
distribution.

Thank you so much for this inspiration!

We were wondering if you had any neat other ideas for such a