[tor-talk] Tor powered wifi hotspot

Sam Whited sam at samwhited.com
Sat Aug 4 20:40:01 UTC 2012


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On 08/04/2012 09:28 AM, adrelanos wrote:
> Before people can start using the wifi they have to notice a small
> website explaining Tor, exit sniffing, recommendation to avoid
> unencrypted traffic, logging into bank accounts (to prevent getting
> them frozen) and so on.
> 

I actually already do this on my home network. Instead of a landing
page—which is always annoying and will cause the network to be
unusable by devices without a web-browser—I use a second
virtual-network for tor. So when I connect via my normal network name
I'm on the plain-ol' internet, but when I connect to mynetwork-tor I'm
on the Tor network.

> What are the implications, advantages, disadvantages of this
> method?
> 

If you own a coffee-shop, hotel, small business, etc. this works well
because people will have to come to you to request the password at
which time you can make sure they understand the benefits and dangers
of routing traffic through Tor. If they don't seem to know what
they're doing, tell them to use the normal one (which can have a very
strict access-policy, white-list a few good websites, etc.), otherwise
tell them to use Tor.

Best,
Sam


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