Security → This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address

From an Andy Greenberg Wired article of the same name.

In the game of anonymity-versus-surveillance online, the discovery of the user’s IP address usually means game over. But if Ben Caudill has his way, a network snoop who successfully hunts a user through layers of proxy connections to a final IP address would be met with a dead end—while the anonymous user remains safe at home more than a mile away.

»www.wired.com/2015/07/on ··· address/

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They'll find only the ProxyHam box the person planted in a remote library, cafe, or other public place.

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Guess who's fingerprints are all over that box? So who's sniffing the 900 MHz freq & actively monitoring...

All those malicious minds can put something like this to very good use.

this article just feels like some type of sting operation and/or honeypot, especially considering the source of the information. sorry, i'll pass on this one, G.

That is definitely not a new idea. It's been used for years by pirate radio broadcasters. They'll plant their illegal transmitters a couple miles from their house and use legal unlicensed bands to stream the audio from their house to the transmitter.

When the telecommunications regulatory agency (FCC, IC, OFCOM, etc) pinpoints the location of the illegal transmitter, all they get is the box and antenna while the pirate broadcaster is safe at home miles away.

The Feds WOULD NOT like this @ all!!

According to this article, the project is dead.
»arstechnica.com/security ··· ows-why/

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A security researcher has abruptly cancelled next month's scheduled unveiling of a privacy device designed to mask Internet users' physical locations.

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Seems pointless as anyone could get a raspberry Pi and a transceiver that works on a different band than normal.

Likely why it was scraped, once someone got it they'd realize it was pointless.