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This has already been done: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521676/online-anonymity-in-a-box-for-49/ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521676/online-an
by josu 12y ago
This has already been done:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521676/online-anonymity-in-a-box-for-49/ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521676/online-anonymity...
You can buy the product here [1] for $49. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that one is opensource while the other doesn't seem to be.
[1] https://pogoplug.com/safeplug https://pogoplug.com/safeplug
- selectout 12y agoThis is mentioned in the article including a couple points about the size (safeplug is twice the size so less convenient for taking with you) as well as the security flaws found in September.
- josu 12y agoThe article he is referring to is this one: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everything-online/ http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi... The kickstarter page makes no mention to other similar products, which to me seems pretty dishonest. Nobody uses the "Risks and challenges" section correctly.
- selectout 12y agoAh yea, thanks for that. When I originally clicked the link it was to the wired article, must have been updated to the kickstarter page.
- joshwayne 12y agoI think Anonabox will have more success than Safeplug because it's open source. Selling a black box to the privacy conscious never sounded like a good idea.
- josu 12y agoYeah, it seems that they are marketing to different groups of people.
- acabal 12y agoThat's a huge and critical difference. Open source down to the hardware is the only way you can be sure that what you're getting is actually Tor and not Tor + secret backdoor. (Though I suppose you still have to trust the hardware manufacturer, but the buck does have to stop somewhere.)