On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Jacob Appelbaum jacob@appelbaum.net wrote:
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Runa A. Sandvik runa.sandvik@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
DreamPlug is a new plug computer from GlobalScale Technologies: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx. The spec looks good, it runs Ubuntu by default and it doesn't cost too much. I thought that the DreamPlug was going to be very user friendly and a potential candidate for the Torouter project. (Maybe) I was wrong.
When the SheevaPlug came out a couple of years ago, it shipped with a web interface that enabled users to change various network options. I thought the DreamPlug would ship with some kind of interface as well (and my plan was to just plug in a Tor page). This is not the case; it ships with lighthttpd by default and displays a static and very simple placeholder page on 192.168.1.1.
That's great news. A complex web app is just a giant PITA and huge attack surface anyhow.
Yeah, that's true.
If we want to use the DreamPlug for the Torouter, we will have to write a web interface for easy configuration of Tor. The interface should probably also provide options to better secure the DreamPlug. Downloading and installing Tor isn't a problem, but the configuration side of things can be tricky for users who aren't used to the command line.
Or perhaps we can just turn Tor on by default, ship tor-fw-helper and write a basic status of Tor out to a static html file?
Users who aren't familiar with the command line will probably still have a problem configuring Tor. I think that a webui package in Debian/Ubuntu is the best way to go.
Thoughts? Comments?
The Freedombox will likely run on the dream plug, it's the reference platform. I think we should work on ensuring that if we ship a dream plug, we ship a freedombox pre-configured to run Tor - this will likely be the case with the FB anyway: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox Basically Tor needs some kind of webui package in Debian and we'd be good to go.
Yep, sounds good.