Life isn’t exactly easy for hackers in the post-Prism era. After Snowden exposed the NSA’s series of global surveillance programs, the free software community has been steadily developing effective countermeasures. The Mempo Project is one such effort.
The project’s goal is to deliver the most secure desktop and server distribution to counter mass surveillance programs like PRISM. Mempo is built by an open team, including members from Debian and other communities.
In its first phase, Mempo primarily carried out large-scale hardening of Debian, including Grsecurity/PaX kernel hardening, RBAC rules for user-space programs, GCC mitigation compilation options, removing JIT from certain applications, iptables firewall rules, easy creation of XEN virtual machines, isolation of critical programs, anonymous networking via TOR+VPN+Darknet, and build multi-signature and other security hardening tasks.
We also call on the old-school hackers from the Chinese community to get involved, and to donate to the Mempo project or organizations like the EFF.
btw: The Debian community is probably the GNU/Linux distro community with the highest concentration of old-school hackers (including anarchists) right now. The world may belong to Red Hat, and to SuSE, but ultimately it will be Debian’s 😉
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