+cpunks Interested in update mechanisms, interdiction resilience, trusted boot, web / other interfaces.
These devices just change and expand your threat surface. Travis On Oct 13, 2014 12:21 PM, "Yosem Companys" <[email protected]> wrote: > Today a group of privacy-focused developers plans to launch a Kickstarter > campaign for Anonabox. The $45 open-source router automatically directs all > data that connects to it by ethernet or Wifi through the Tor network, > hiding the user’s IP address and skirting censorship. It’s also small > enough to hide two in a pack of cigarettes. Anonabox’s tiny size means > users can carry the device with them anywhere, plugging it into an office > ethernet cable to do sensitive work or in a cybercafe in China to evade the > Great Firewall. The result, if Anonabox fulfills its security promises, is > that it could become significantly easier to anonymize all your traffic > with Tor—not just Web browsing, but email, instant messaging, filesharing > and all the other miscellaneous digital exhaust that your computer leaves > behind online. > > “Now all your programs, no matter what you do on your computer, are routed > over the Tor network,” says August Germar, one of the independent IT > consultants who spent the last four years developing the Anonabox. He says > it was built with the intention of making Tor easier to use not just for > the software’s Western fans, but for those who really need it more > Internet-repressive regimes. “It was important to us that it be portable > and small—something you can easily conceal or even throw away if you have > to get rid of it.” > > http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everything-online/ > h/t @anahi_ayala > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. >
