UK police hacking & the KiasWorld Linux distro

kiakanpa | 06 January, 2009 13:57

As I have previously covered in the EU makes police hacking legal post Europe is making moves to give police forces new powers to spy on anyone’s home or business computers. This is now being implemented in the UK, and is being picked up by more mainstream sources such as BBC and The Times.

To counter this, I hope to make available soon (read, when I get chance) a Linux distribution, based off GOS, that will run from a CD (though it will be installable as running from the CD is slow), it will include encryption be default as well as TOR and other online anonymity tools - if anyone is willing to help me test this, or have ideas of things to include, please let me know - you will need to have a PC or Intel based Mac though.

I'll let you know when I have something usable.

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Re: UK police hacking & the KiasWorld Linux distro

Kirrus | 06/01/2009, 17:55

GOS?

I'm an Ubuntu geek, so I may be able to help with a Debian or Ubuntu based distro.

Re: UK police hacking & the KiasWorld Linux distro

Kia | 06/01/2009, 18:56

I may take you up on that :-p

GOS is an Ubuntu based distro - just using the enlightenment frontend - I picked that over Ubuntu as I would imagine most people will be running it from a CD or USB stick and enlightenment is a little snappier that gnome - other than that it is not much different, and the KiasWorld distro will not be too much different either - just some useful tools set up by default such as TOR, fireGPG, freenet etc.

Re: UK police hacking & the KiasWorld Linux distro

Kirrus | 08/01/2009, 15:38

Rather than 2 chains (Ubuntu>GOS>KIA), why not just base it on ubuntu (Ubuntu>KIA), and load the enlightenment GUI? Should be simple enough to do...

Re: UK police hacking & the KiasWorld Linux distro

Anna | 09/01/2009, 13:48

I'm about as savvy as a brick but I'd take you up on it too.