[tor-relays] Anonbox Project

[Colin Mahns]

It looks like Kickstarter has suspended the project. 

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/kickstarter-suspends-anonabox

Colin

On October 15, 2014 9:47:09 AM EDT, isis <isis at 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
>
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