I have seen their website and it looks like someone is trying to sell this product though I didn't see a price tag yet.
Looks dangerous. Possibly a honeypot. Thanks, Torzilla11 Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone Thomas White <thomaswh...@riseup.net> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Well the topic has come up several times in the last day or two on IRC >and generally the feeling is that it may be quite bad for the users of >the product, not necessarily the Tor network however. > >One thing that AnonBox does do is increase Tor network traffic - you >can see this as both good and bad since it adds load to exit operators >like myself which are already in short supply and diversity, but at >the same time adding traffic to the network makes it safer to use for >everyone. > >The real concern is the mismarketing and borderline fraud occuring by >assuming the simple use of a protocol or open source software (which I >note, the hardware is not actually open source at all). In addition, >the users of such a system are going to be leaving an enormous browser >fingerprint and their activities will be correlated so expectation of >reasonable privacy from this project is a misguided hope at best; at >worst very dangerous to life and limb of anyone who relies on Tor for >their life. > >I am personally hoping somebody high up in the Tor Project management >will openly condemn this atrocity and hopefully Kickstarter and the >funders will withdraw their funds before a whole load of people buy >into this "security as a tool" idea. > >- -T > >On 15/10/2014 12:15, Sven Reissmann wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I recently read about the anonbox project [1], a small >> hardware-router, which allows end-users to connect their whole LAN >> to the Tor network. The project is on kickstarter at the moment >> [2]. >> >> Has there already been a discussion on how this might affect the >> performance of the Tor network? >> >> Regards, Sven. >> >> >> [1] http://anonabox.com [2] >> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing >> list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) > >iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUPmHuAAoJEE2uQiaesOsLAOMP/j8BHqO2yIHRV8Q7Ja3aYHrv >ppLrDbjvbkV9paqGR4X8Gz71PJyHXZoOse6JfBxOnZG+mmoS9elYoXDkKoz8y5Z3 >ot/cpoQdKLei+LvmRxQ5VHcwDXx6wb35+o7I5FnvMoyH2YTeqyfAmGnb5X7D3oa7 >H5rYF8n17ttfvqHvFt2tRuZKKyskJWRnjnpkmmAJSeZpmZnRf38JGhdknmoPMXg3 >5hwzh7E9xFSMM5NrCpXDYvRdZJMvQPWdDFOVUZvKMh/magJitfBZ2Lr7cpq2Vpep >bU8Xs4z/a92j+bm3lN1jzUEgoxs7BEtn/bG2ASRJp2BufOFW8+FCTuOJQPVV0iSa >BPtjoNGe1cwBin256ODF3GjcuzS0Vbql0oS3HyYyEgYEnDjXcw05sdd9tg9i1lqk >66M8h9/aQvZZX1qB4EPzweOYM10VX7mS2pGGl+00wGkGZvhZ4k5ixP/8kHQ7OqQh >d6lwg/ZWK+6wYx3ADCKCvfD5pCNMlf4AtWgam3eQpSPw1uJuw3/twKEvuQijfhRM >XyNu3GivErIpL1d9awm0tJdqcZYZsKw/RFKN9leHt8PhYTMcSp+MViPuFaPIcYh0 >CHwj36gQTqB3XxzdnyJyzigwQhpWePs+qcmc4S3mTq8ogZsnBMgS080XocOx1Jrp >zqZfg7sOGY+s3018nntK >=SX0h >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >tor-relays mailing list >tor-relays@lists.torproject.org >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
