Hi all,
i got a WDTV Live (http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=1003&lang=en) that's part of bigger family of consumer mediaplayer from Western Digital (http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?level1=10&lang=en).
It seems it can run Tor without any major issue. There is a very nice hacked firmware community around WDTV users, that's a very cheap hardware (retail price 70-80EUR).
What's about making a "promotional" campaign like for the Tor Cloud to have people running Tor Relay "right on their TV" ?
I mean, the "hacked firmware" installation process of WDTV works that way: - Plug an USB Key formatted FAT32 with 3 files (boot, kernel, image) on WDTV - Poweron
So it may be possible to make a campaign where users are invited to "run their tor relay" on their TV in 3 simple steps: - Get a USB Key - Load that files on it - Plug to your WDTV - Poweron your WDTV You are now helping poor sirian, iranian and chinese censored people.
That way even the average fat guy sitting on his couch drinking beer and eating wing chicken can support freedom of speech.
That kind of user can just "poweron" the WDTV and with his "remote control" after seeing his favorite telefilm on paytv, can just "zap" to see how his Tor Router is working: On TV!
This could be defined as the "very lazy Tor user" who doesn't even want to use a computer, but just do TV zapping :P
So, the idea could be to do a custom hacked firmware of WDTV and a WDTV Apps that you can "click" via remote control, seeing the statistics of your Tor Relay.
# uname -a Linux WDTVLIVE 2.6.22.19-19-4 #28 PREEMPT Mon Mar 22 20:08:14 CST 2010 mips GNU/Linux
# tor --version Jan 01 15:41:37.533 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.32 (git-877e17749725ab88). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux mips) Tor version 0.2.2.32 (git-877e17749725ab88).
# free total used free shared buffers Mem: 199056 193664 5392 0 10832 Swap: 0 0 0 Total: 199056 193664 5392
# cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : Sigma Designs TangoX processor : 0 cpu model : MIPS 24K V7.12 FPU V0.0 Initial BogoMIPS : 332.59 wait instruction : yes microsecond timers : yes tlb_entries : 32 extra interrupt vector : yes hardware watchpoint : yes ASEs implemented : mips16 shadow register sets : 1 VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available
System bus frequency : 333000000 Hz CPU frequency : 499500000 Hz DSP frequency : 333000000 Hz
-naif