Interesting articles on what Cisco is allegedly doing, or trying to do, with home routers:
Amid Privacy Backlash, Cisco Says It’s Not Logging Your Web History http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-06-29-amid-privacy-backlash-cisco-says-its-not-logging-your-web-history/ Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-monetized-and-killed-at-their-discretion Part of their service agreement read, or reads: "When you use the Service, we may keep track of certain information related to your use of the Service, including but not limited to...network traffic (e.g., megabytes per hour); Internet history" I remember from Eben's original talk on FreedomBox he described it as something people would use to replace their home wireless routers. They go to the store to buy a new wireless router, and buy a FreedomBox instead of a WeSpyOnYouBox. I wonder if this might be a good target for a first release of FreedomBox? Have it just be something people use to replace their current home routers. Then later releases would add to that, with extra features beyond being just a router. OpenWRT comes to mind, although it's not Debian. How hard would it be to get Debian running on a home router type of device, with the features users would expect from a simple home router? (Or, maybe Debian's already been ported to a device like this?) One of the big advantages I see to this is that it narrows the focus. We'd get something usable out sooner rather than later. Then over time services could be added, in later releases. "FreedomBox. Routing without the spying." :-)
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