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I would love to see someone sell these as preconfigured as minimal bandwidth tor exit nodes with wifi so they can be spread far and wide. Just connect to power,
by malandrew 11y ago
I would love to see someone sell these as preconfigured as minimal bandwidth tor exit nodes with wifi so they can be spread far and wide. Just connect to power, make sure it is connected to a wifi network and then leave it alone. Just make sure it advertises itself as such so that law enforcement knows that it is likely not owned by the owner of the Internet connection and therefore doesn't make sense to do anything other than find the device and disable it if that's what they want. It should have a similar disclaimer as the standard tor exit not notice, except it should say something like "this tor exit node is operating on a disposable computer and was placed clandestinely on this network without the consent of the owner" or something to that effect.
I know there are ethical implications here, but that doesn't mean that something like this shouldn't or won't exist eventually.
- VMG 11y agoThere are also economical implications. Bandwidth isn't free. Now if you also could charge for your service with micropayments, we have a winner.
- Hyperborian 11y agoI believe the implication is that these would be placed in locations that have free wifi available, without necessarily having permission to do so.
- feelix 11y agoMcDonalds would be perfect
- geographomics 11y agoMost wifi networks are NATed, so this would only work if you could also reconfigure the router to forward the necessary ports to the device. You could use it more easily for hosting hidden services though, as those only require an outbound connection to be made to the Tor network. Hidden services on a hidden device.
- traverseda 11y agoupnp is a thing at least some of the time.
- driverdan 11y agoThese are not well suited for Tor. No built in networking and a serious lack of CPU power needed for processing encryption.