Tor on TV (hemm, on WDTV!)
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
On 11/23/2011 02:57 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
What's about making a "promotional" campaign like for the Tor Cloud to have people running Tor Relay "right on their TV" ?
Great hacking on the WDTV! I have been looking at getting Orbot (Tor on Android) running on Google TV flavor of Android, and it seems pretty straightforward. I will probably wait until the next gen of these come out, as right now, I know no one who actually owns one of these devices. +n
On 11/27/2011 09:23 PM, Nathan Freitas wrote:
On 11/23/2011 02:57 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
What's about making a "promotional" campaign like for the Tor Cloud to have people running Tor Relay "right on their TV" ?
Great hacking on the WDTV!
I have been looking at getting Orbot (Tor on Android) running on Google TV flavor of Android, and it seems pretty straightforward. I will probably wait until the next gen of these come out, as right now, I know no one who actually owns one of these devices.
I have one. All the best, Jake
On 11/28/11 6:23 AM, Nathan Freitas wrote:
I have been looking at getting Orbot (Tor on Android) running on Google TV flavor of Android, and it seems pretty straightforward. I will probably wait until the next gen of these come out, as right now, I know no one who actually owns one of these devices.
It would be also interesting to play around the Wii Linux system, to see if Tor can run over Co-Linux on a Wii :-) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii-Linux http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Wii:Hardware_Support Think how cool it would be if all "Homebrew" wii users would be able to plug an SD with a ready-made Linux/Tor image and click on it, loading when Wii is not used (most of the time). -naif
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Think how cool it would be if all "Homebrew" wii users would be able to plug an SD with a ready-made Linux/Tor image and click on it, loading when Wii is not used (most of the time). I thought about that two year a go or so, when collecting information for my talk on strange Tor ports. The main problem I see, here, is that the wii does not have a backgrounding system: the main application is loaded "in foreground" replacing the System Menu and that's all you can have running. Yes, sure, you can have some nice Vidalia-style infographics on it but that's all. Or you can run Linux on it but from booting the open source kernel onward it's not different then running an ordinary PPC Linux distribution.
One interesting hack, don't know if possible though, would be that of running something *behind* the System Menu. -- Marco Bonetti Tor research and other stuff: http://sid77.slackware.it/ Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://workaround.ch/ Linux-live for powerpc: http://workaround.ch/pub/rsync/mb/linux-live/ My GnuPG key id: 0x0B60BC5F
Hi all, TorTV Project has been implemented by Jaromil: TorTV : http://dyne.org/software/tortv/ Jaromil : http://rastasoft.org - @jaromil Cool, testing have to be done! -naif On 11/23/11 8:57 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
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
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Nathan Freitas