This is interesting. Wonder if we will begin to see many.
Then again there was this thing a few months ago….
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Then again there was this thing a few months ago….
Sure ), and this one as well is around since more than one year
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as well as this one
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jaclaz
Copying part of the post from
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Basically, it's a rip off with backdoors….
We have proved that Anonabox guy and his twitter friends have intentionally deceived the public.
They lied about the prototypes, saying that they invented the device while the device is bought from Aliexpress. What makes things absurd, they offered a bullshit story on how Arab Spring inspired them to create the device. Arab Spring started in 2010, so they are actually implying that the device was in the making for FOUR years, which is a blatant lie. All this to gain more sympathies from the people, thus deceiving them into backing their project!
during AMA was the perfect opportunity for August Anonabox to come clean, to admit that he lied and everyone would forget about it. Of course, that did not happen. He continued to lie more and intentionally ignored the important questions for hours. When he replied he basically tried to "stonewall" people proving he is a liar and acted like he did not know about the Chinese devices.
He finally came clean to the Wired author that in fact they are using the board from China, sourced by the company called Gainstrong. That is only about 10% of the truth, the whole device including design, board, plastic and everything was already made in China a long before August decided to “invent” Anonabox.
Anonabox software is actually OpenWRT, which is something they did point out in logo, but intentionally withheld any actual specifications for the reason in next point. They withheld that information to BOOST SALES.
They are intentionally misleading the public (LYING) about the device being fully open source, while it’s not.
Hardware, the most important part of the device, is not open source. It’s a Chinese knockoff of TP-Link “3G routers” which opens the possibilities for a hardware backdoors in the hardware (think of Huawei backdoors). The reason why they did so is simple, nobody would buy the device in such numbers. Everyone would just build their own device.
Their Tor package is actually The Grugq’s Portal (linked in edit above).
OpenWRT is so BADLY configured by Anonabox team that device that is supposed to protect you is actually giving away your information. The device has BACKDOOR root password, OPEN wireless network (so anyone can connect to it) and is shipped with SSHD!!! This means that anyone can take control of the device!
Anonabox marketing terms, pictures and prototypes are all ripped from various web sources. Wording is ripped off from UnJailPi, photos are actually just a photos of a Chinese clone, “prototypes” are well know hardware devices that are NOT invited by Anonabox.
I just don't see the need for a device like this, useless for anything other than web browsing, and even then Tor is painfully slow.
Just use Onion browser.
Yup, totally agree. They are really just selling you tor, which is sadly ridiculous considering that it is free. The worse part is that they tell you it keeps your information "safe," when it is really just an anonymizer.
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Yep ) , the "developer!" (please note the double quotes and the exclamation point wink ) quote from here
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August Germar, one of the independent IT consultants who spent the last four years developing the Anonabox
is currently busy
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trying desperately to transform the huge pile of bull§hit he used on kickstarter into a "slight miscommunication" problem. roll
And it made it's way on Business Insider, too
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jaclaz
… AND …
… the funding was just suspended by the kickstarter guys
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anonabox a Tor hardware router (Suspended)
by August Germar
Funding Suspended Funding for this project was suspended about 2 hours ago.
jaclaz
