From Fiction to Freedom

Paranoid Linux is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret. It even throws up a bunch of "chaff" communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack.
~Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, 2008)

When those words were written, ParanoidLinux was just a fiction. It is our goal to make this a reality. The project officially started on May 14th, and has been growing ever since. We welcome your ideas, contributions, designs, or code. You can find us on freenode's irc server in the #paranoidlinux channel. Hope to see you there!

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ParanoidLinux Team

Build 1

Jrabbit edit: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4439431 Torrent http://alexbobp.servebeer.com/share/ParanoidLinux_alpha-alpha-alpha-alpha.iso HTTP Mirror (please seed!)

Today marks a monumental occasion build one of paranoid linux. Now i'm not going to admit we're anywhere near done, and to quote alexbobp "is "slightly paranoid ubuntu" kind of like "slightly pointy coconut"". Well yes, it is. But being slightly pointy is better than being not point at all (that's basically a Richard Dawkins quote)

So go out, find bugs, report them here and help the distro grow! If anyone knows how to take a ubuntu distro and create an svn tree that we can use to build cd's more quickly, that would be greatly appreciated.

Sam Phippen

Alpha-Alpha Release In the Works!

We've been working the last couple days to get the foundation laid for the Alpha-Alpha release.

This does not mean we're anywhere near an actual release; however it does mean we're finally moving in that direction. We're still working on many of the details however we're fairly certain that we will be using debian-testing as our base. We just want to make sure that everyone knows that we ARE still alive and we ARE ready to finally get to the fun part of GNU/Linux Distribution.

As always, Stay Paranoid.

Powerking out.

Ping..... PONG! (Kluster, Debian, and Pandas)

Hi, this is a ping to anyone just lurking around. Make sure you are subscribed to our RSS feed.

  • 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.

Any Interest In the IRC logs?

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.

Chaff is Chaff

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

Halló magyar ember!

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

Package Selection Meeting, Part 1

06/01/2008 - 14:00
06/01/2008 - 15:00
Etc/GMT-7

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

Clarification: What this is all about

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.

Perioidic Blog Entry

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 :)

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