<html><head></head><body>It looks like Kickstarter has suspended the project. <br>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/kickstarter-suspends-anonabox">http://www.wired.com/2014/10/kickstarter-suspends-anonabox</a><br>
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Colin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 15, 2014 9:47:09 AM EDT, isis <isis@torproject.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Sven Reissmann transcribed 2.4K bytes:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi there,<br /> <br /> I recently read about the anonbox project [1], a small hardware-router,<br /> which allows end-users to connect their whole LAN to the Tor network.<br /> The project is on kickstarter at the moment [2].<br /> <br /> Has there already been a discussion on how this might affect the<br /> performance of the Tor network?<br /></blockquote><br />Yes and no.<br /><br />One of the Anonabox developers, August Germar, posted to their kickstarter<br />page that the distributed Anonaboxes would have a checkout option to be<br />relays/bridges by default. [0] Colin Mahns responded to this, [1] pointing out<br />some of my recent discussions with Mike Perry and others on the tor-dev list<br />on scaling the Tor network. [2] [3] (And August Germar responded in their<br />Reddit AMA. [4])<br
/><br />I agree with Colin that the Anonabox folks seem to be well-intentioned.<br />However, the network effects, were these routers to be distributed, and were a<br />majority of them to be configured as relays by default, would likely be<br />harmful due to the low bandwidth of most residential connections.<br /><br />That said, I think that everyone here would welcome the chance for a<br />pocket-sized FLOSS router which enforces safe Tor usage. If that is their<br />goal, and they are able to communicate honestly with users, I'd like to help<br />them succeed. Particularly if it means someone else does hardware development,<br />since that's not really my jam. :)<br /><br />[0]: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router/posts/1017625">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router/posts/1017625</a><br />[1]: <a
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router/posts/1017625?cursor=8115567#comment-8115566">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router/posts/1017625?cursor=8115567#comment-8115566</a><br />[2]: <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007558.html">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007558.html</a><br />[3]: <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007560.html">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007560.html</a><br />[4]: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/anonabox/comments/2ja22g/hi_im_august_germar_a_developer_for_the_anonabox/cl9u17k">https://www.reddit.com/r/anonabox/comments/2ja22g/hi_im_august_germar_a_developer_for_the_anonabox/cl9u17k</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>