2013: The year of Gnome security

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The goal that Gnome board of directors set for the upcoming year is to improve the safety features of our favorite desktop environment by implementing and integrating special tools and features.

To achieve this goal, Gnome is once again asking for the active contribution of the users in both participating in the development and in contributing in reaching the 20000 usd goal.

The goals

Privacy is always of key importance for all users no matter the case. Some may need more and some may need less, but what everyone surely needs is an easy and coherent way to choose their privacy settings through tools that are well and deeply integrated inside the system they are using instead of searching, installing and using various different tools to fill the gap.

2012 GUADEC in Spain seemed to kindle the flame of inspiration for the Gnome community to do more about security. Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor project delivered the opening keynote and suggested that Gnome security would be greatly enhanced if Tor was built in the environment.

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Click logo for more

This keynote inspired everyone and a new Friends of GNOME campaign, aimed at making GNOME one of the most secure computing environments available.

Proceeds from the privacy fundraising campaign will be used to fund development efforts such as:

Application containment
Enhanced disk encryption support
Tor integration
User control over diagnostic reporting features
Robust VPN routing
Application integration with system-wide privacy settings
Controls for how GNOME devices are identified on local networks
Anti-phishing features for Web, GNOME’s web browser

So, is security one of the main reasons you are using Linux in the first place? Help make things even better in that front, and for the first time inside your favorite desktop environment by becoming a friend of Gnome!

Donate!

chrys

Tor integration, sounds like cools stuff :).
Bastian Hougaard

This is very nice and all, but as a donator I am also curious as to how resultful GNOME was at making 2012 the year of Accessibility. Will there be any reports on this from GNOME’s side? Would also love to hear feedback from the target group of these features.
- alex285
  
  Hello,
  Their Financial Reports are open to everyone.You can check here: http://www.gnome.org/foundation/finance/ I guess they need to update for 2012
  - Bastian Hougaard
    
    Hi alex,
    
    Thank you very much for this link! Too bad the 2012 report isn’t finished yet. I hope woGue will keep us updated on this ;)
    - billtoulas
      
      Hello,
      We already talked about the money raised http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-accessibility-is-close-to-its-fundrasing-goal/ and about some of the results http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-3-8-accessibility-improvements/.
      The official reports will be interesting to look at, when they will be available.
      - Bastian Hougaaard
        
        Thank you a lot bill!
Me

They never did put my name up on the supporter page for 2012. Bastards.
- http://twitter.com/Aeyoun Daniel Aleksandersen
  
  Same here.
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