The GNOME project, one of the purveyors of the 2 main desktops and software for Linux, has announced that it reached its goal last weekend of raising $20,000 to help make its software even more secure and privacy aware.
Individual software projects will now be invited to bid to secure some funding to make their products more secure and private. Areas that the GNOME project is interested in pursuing include the following:
- 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; and
- anti-phishing features for Web, the GNOME browser.