On 1/18/16, Christian Stöveken <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > I was talking to one of the tor developers at the Wauholland place the > last day @32C3 about his opinion on transparent tor wlan boxes like > anonabox or invinzbox and others.
a recurrent theme. past discussion threads: 1. "[tor-dev] design for a Tor router without anonymity compromises" https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-May/008766.html 2. "[tor-relays] Anonbox Project - Mike Perry" https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-October/005541.html 3. "[tor-relays] Anonbox Project - Roger Dingledine" https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-October/005544.html 4. "[tor-talk] Cloak Tor Router" https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-November/035436.html > Here goes the idea: > I can provide transparent tor wifi routers or facilitate a manufacturing > contact for a router. > > The torbox would simply keep the data plan subscriber (his public ip) out > of sight, > thus keeping the wlan provider from liability issues caused by the internet > users. > ... > Again - the focus is not to provide the user with anonymity - which we know > can't be gained > trough a transparent tor proxy whilst not educating / radically changing > your internet > behavior at the same time. i still prefer the "Tor enforcing privacy router" approach instead. then the router can act as a fail-safe for Tor instances running on the client. any other design will be misunderstood, to the detriment of (some) users. instead of easy, why not correct? :) best regards, -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
