Dear all,

The Fbx was featured at the CCC Congress in Berlin on 2011 Dec. 28 in a 
lightning talk. The five-minute presentation was based on slides provided with 
permission by James Vasile, to whom credit was given. It was received well by 
the 200 persons present. It comes here (the second one after Mitch Altman's),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUb81CmsOk&feature=related

It was followed by a workshop held in a small room, which filled up with 30 
persons. Several cryptographers were present at the workshop, and they were 
allowed to pursue a discussion of such specialized issues as using the wireless 
function of Freedom Boxes to generate keys. One participant had extensive 
experience with plug computers, and addressed the heat issue. 

Another participant, apparently accompanied by his wife, recalled the travails 
of a police search of their house. The rest of James Vasile's slides were 
presented and the Dreamplug was demonstrated.  Pagekite was used to get access 
to the Dreamplug located behind routers and firewalls. 

The developer of one of the three leading Fbx prototypes, [email protected] 
, was available on Jabber chat to field more any difficult questions that came 
up. We discussed whether disk encryption would be possible given the 
requirement that Freedom Boxes have to be self-booting devices in amateurs' 
hands, and the applicability of Tahoe LAFS to the problem of encrypted storage.

A useful overview of all lightning talks can be found here, 
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Lightning_Talks

Thomas

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