Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project

Anonabox, the little box that purported to provide you privacy and peace of mind while surfing the Internet is no more. Kickstarter investigated claims that the Anonabox router was not what the maker claimed it to be and pulled the project on Friday afternoon after reaching 82 times the intended goal.

A review of the project uncovered evidence that it broke Kickstarter’s rules. Those rules prohibit offering purchased items and claiming to have made them yourself, presenting someone else’s work as your own and misrepresenting or failing to disclose relevant facts about the project or its creator.

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I doubt it could of even acted as a range extender.

Clear scam to prey on the paranoid trying to protect everything that they themselves don't bother protecting.

Maybe I should write an app that adds a layer to FB to add a pop-up whenever you post something to say something along the lines of "Encrypting post, securing your data from NSA/Google/Mother/North Korea". Sell it for a $1

yeah, saw this on hackaday, the resized images were lulz

he had never intended the project to be aimed at normal, non-expert users, so much as developers who would contribute feedback and continue to improve the router.

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so he uses off the shelf parts, hell except for 'tweaking' it by putting more memory on it he doesn't do anything. Then his plan is to let others do all the work to actually make the custom one.

And the fact hard coded backdoors were in it was quite hilarious

sfsuphysics said:

so he uses off the shelf parts, hell except for 'tweaking' it by putting more memory on it he doesn't do anything. Then his plan is to let others do all the work to actually make the custom one.

And the fact hard coded backdoors were in it was quite hilarious

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There are much easyer ways to achieve anonymity. Just buy a second hand GPS phone from a garage sale, slap in a prepaid sim card and access the net with it. Voila, total anonymity.

B00nie said:

There are much easyer ways to achieve anonymity. Just buy a second hand GPS phone from a garage sale, slap in a prepaid sim card and access the net with it. Voila, total anonymity.

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If you're in range of multiple towers with a cell phone or multiple satellites with a sat phone your location can potentially be triangulated. Source: NCIS L.A.