Debian GNU/Linux in a Human Rights environment?
Hello,
I hope this is the right list to post this to, otherwise please excuse me for
the intrusion.
I recently was approached by someone who wanted to build a linux distribution
to be used by human rights workers, or more generally, people who have
controversial knowledge that needs to be protected. The idea was to create a
linux distribution to incorporate the following features:
- Strong Cryptography (Public Key, without a Certification Authority, ie. Web
of Trust like) built into the system from the bottom up. Everything on disk
and in memory should be encrypted by default, and only decrypted when needed.
There's willingness to sacrifice a noticable amount of system load to do this.
- Crypted content (witness statements, eg) should be replicated to several
machines connected to a same medium (the internet). This replication should
be transparent to the user, and be done in an automatic way.
- There should exist the possibility to send "anonymous" email. This mail
should be untraceable to protect the sender to the untomst extent.
- the whole system should be built on Free Software (in the DFSG sense).
- the system should be based on capabilities, not the unix-line model of
user/group/world.
- support for multiple languages, eg. spanish & chinese. It should be possible
to completely localise the system, ie. also translate manpages & error
messages into the target language.
- the system would be used by people with reading difficulties, let alone
complely unable to read.
I thought debian was a good starting point, and yes, I know, its a lot of
work. Any comments/inputs welcome (mail me if its off-topic of this list)
Robert Ribnitz
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