Hi there! I'm with ICLOAK.

I just saw your questions over google alerts and want to answer them for you. I promise no spam just answering your questions.

So, ICLOAK is built on the shoulders of other open source projects, and as such we intend to make available whatever changes and modifications we do to the underlying OS in the future once things settle down with our kickstarter campaign and the ICLOAK USB drives go out for sale.

Now, ICLOAK is really meant for the non techie crowd. We are putting a lot of work into making it accessible to people unfamiliar with online privacy/security in general. We believe there is a huge gap of information available in a language non techies can understand and grasp. The goal of ICLOAK in the end is not only the anonymous browsing but also the tools included in ICLOAK to make the online anonymity experience less frightening or alien to someone like my mom or little brother. Now this doesn't mean you couldn't build your own ICLOAK, in fact we are working on a "How To" page in our wiki underling the software and tools we use to put something like this together. But we believe people's time is precious and building ICLOAK is time consuming with all sorts of things to keep in mind security wise, which is what ICLOAK solves for the non techie.

About backdoors, one of the goals of the Kickstarter campaign is to fund an independed audit of ICLOAK and the customized TOR Bundle which the TOR Foundation would be helping us audit.
One of the things we'll make available to you to make sure you ICLOAK usb hasn't been tampered with after it leaves our offices is a HASH of the content of the USB drive. which you can use to check your ICLOAK Stik has not been altered since it left our hands.

Hope that clears some your concerns.
Let us know if you have any more questions.