Crypto donations now possible!
Published on February 23, 2022 by Thierry Laurion
Hello fellow past/new Insurgo Initiative's supporters!
It came to our attention that the Open Source Collective Host was supporting crypto based donations! We activated the feature, it was tested by contributors and it works!!!
Please show your support to the Open Source Firmware, Open Source Software and Open Hardware Platform based Accessible Security, initiated through NLnet initial funding to integrate those safer defaults under Qubes OS 4.1 (Optional Qubes FWUPD support, optional Qubes/Whonix Remote administration through hidden onion services, Qubes disk trimming passed down properly from LVM to LUKS to disk for better anti-forensics by default, Network MAC randomization by default)!!!
Please donate generously so that the effort can continue while sharing this post!
Your donations are important! The more donation, the more independent research/development/maintenance/testing/documentation and new platform development/inclusion/support/contributions to other needed projects/code contributors/collaborators.
Insurgo (Thanks to tlaurion) devotes itself into maintaining Heads as much as possible, which you can have an insight here.
It came to our attention that the Open Source Collective Host was supporting crypto based donations! We activated the feature, it was tested by contributors and it works!!!
Please show your support to the Open Source Firmware, Open Source Software and Open Hardware Platform based Accessible Security, initiated through NLnet initial funding to integrate those safer defaults under Qubes OS 4.1 (Optional Qubes FWUPD support, optional Qubes/Whonix Remote administration through hidden onion services, Qubes disk trimming passed down properly from LVM to LUKS to disk for better anti-forensics by default, Network MAC randomization by default)!!!
Please donate generously so that the effort can continue while sharing this post!
Your donations are important! The more donation, the more independent research/development/maintenance/testing/documentation and new platform development/inclusion/support/contributions to other needed projects/code contributors/collaborators.
Insurgo (Thanks to tlaurion) devotes itself into maintaining Heads as much as possible, which you can have an insight here.
- Insurgo made the initial Heads port for the KGPE-D16
- Tonux599 collaboration led to coreboot 4.11 port and TPM inclusion
- coreboot removed KGPE-D16 support from their coreboot 4.12 release.
- Insurgo attempted to scope needed work with 3mbed publicly, which led to the creation of this issue. Unfortunately, Insurgo could not fund the project.
- Immunefi showed interest for the Heads supported KGPE-D16 platform and proposed to fund the work.
- 3mdeb proposed a working plan
- 3mdeb made the work!
- 3mdeb published many status updates and a rigorous blob post covering details here.
- Let's remind that the KGPE-D16 is the last totally user owneable, RYF certified x86 platform that will probably ever exist. Thanks to Vikings to have certified that Asus board!
- Insurgo launched the first Qubes certified laptop that came with Qubes OS preinstalled.
- Insurgo was and is still the first enforcing a reownership wizard, making transit tamper evidence of hardware, firmware and software as easy and secure as it gets today.
- Insurgo is privately funding 3mdeb's coreboot Talos II port which now needs beta testers. It would be amazing to have external financial support for this effort.
- Let's remember that this amazing Talos II Power9 based platform is the last and most performant platform being RYF certified. Thanks to Raptor Computing Systems to create RYF hardware today.
- Insurgo created Heads maximized boards to finally stop struggling with space/legal blobs redistribution/restrictions of SPI flash stored components, neutering ME (98k BUP and BOMP modules only!) on Ivy/Sandy bridge platforms, being the last laptops not requiring FSP nor ME blobs and being natively initialized by coreboot.
- Insurgo piloted Qubes 4.1 compatibility issues with Qubes team, leading to its support inside of Heads for the whole community.
You can take a look on all GitHub related collaborations that happened in the past here:
And of course you can see where the past contributions to Insurgo Initiative in the past were used for, thanks to OpenCollective system's transparency!