I was excited about this project and signed up as a backer. Then I read http://www.reddit.com/r/anonabox/comments/2ja22g/hi_im_august_germar_a_developer_for_the_anonabox/ and have reduced my contribution amount. Yes, I really like the idea of it this small device and what it does but at the same time I can see that it really *appears* that someone's allegedly selling on cheap hardware and applying a large markup. What an incredible testimony to the name of Tor though; the amount pledged with 27 days to go is approaching $500k ?!
What concerns me more is that a lot of less-knowledgeable folk might sign up to be an exit node using what is really a low-power, low bandwidth device. Not good. I've since changed my pledge to $1 in recognition of the publicity, but I'll be setting up an Onion Pi and making a donation to Tor instead. --- Peter T Garner, MBCS On the Road (iPad) https://www.petergarner.net On 15 Oct 2014, at 14:47, isis <i...@torproject.org> wrote: > Sven Reissmann transcribed 2.4K bytes: >> 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? > > Yes and no. > > One of the Anonabox developers, August Germar, posted to their kickstarter > page that the distributed Anonaboxes would have a checkout option to be > relays/bridges by default. [0] Colin Mahns responded to this, [1] pointing out > some of my recent discussions with Mike Perry and others on the tor-dev list > on scaling the Tor network. [2] [3] (And August Germar responded in their > Reddit AMA. [4]) > > I agree with Colin that the Anonabox folks seem to be well-intentioned. > However, the network effects, were these routers to be distributed, and were a > majority of them to be configured as relays by default, would likely be > harmful due to the low bandwidth of most residential connections. > > That said, I think that everyone here would welcome the chance for a > pocket-sized FLOSS router which enforces safe Tor usage. If that is their > goal, and they are able to communicate honestly with users, I'd like to help > them succeed. Particularly if it means someone else does hardware development, > since that's not really my jam. :) > > [0]: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router/posts/1017625 > [1]: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router/posts/1017625?cursor=8115567#comment-8115566 > [2]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007558.html > [3]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007560.html > [4]: > https://www.reddit.com/r/anonabox/comments/2ja22g/hi_im_august_germar_a_developer_for_the_anonabox/cl9u17k > > -- > ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft > _________________________________________________________ > OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 > Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt > _______________________________________________ > 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
