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Canadian Developers Making the Next Tails Privacy Software

posted by azrael on Sunday August 03 2014, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the heads-tails-knees-toes dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Canadian developers want to make the next Tails-alternative privacy software:

"Whether it's the NSA exploiting weaknesses in encryption software, the holes in Tor making it less anonymous, or the major problems with Tails - vulnerabilities are constantly testing the security and anonymity of computer users.

But little known Montreal-based developers at Subgraph want to change all that, and have started working on a zero-day resistant Operating System (OS), protecting against infiltration.

Subgraph takes the approach that overall computer security is critical to anonymity, targeting protection against zero-day vulnerabilities, the types of weakness unknown to the developers while they're writing software."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday August 03 2014, @03:39PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 03 2014, @03:39PM (#76914) Journal

    ...just don't tell Harper.... that would be bad, m'kay! That would be bad...

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday August 03 2014, @08:25PM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 03 2014, @08:25PM (#76967) Journal

    Harper's not interested.
    He hasn't lifted a finger against Openbsd, probably the most secure off the shelf OS you can find.

    In fact, Subgraph's use of a linux kernel, (even a security enhanced Linux kernel), says to me they are starting from behind the 8-ball. (Not sure I'd trust that supposedly mathematically proven kernel from one of the largest US contractors - General Dynamics either).

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