[Freedombox-discuss] How should we translate 'box'?

[Matt Joyce]

http://www.music-piracy.com/openwrt-fonera2n-squashfs.img

That's my latest fonera2.0n image for chaosvpn.  It's very rough at the
moment... but that image includes tor, tinyproxy, and a full version dnsmasq
as well as tinc and chaosvpn software.

So this is easy to do right now... a matter of minutes then a couple of days
of luci-app dev.  At least on foneras.  Hijacking the fonera shared
networking stuff is possible as well except it uses centralized login and
registration / auth.

The trust model in a mesh network is very different from what we are
traditionally familiar with.  And none of this addresses secure storage of
data.

-Matt

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Having a very simple way to recreate fon would be great!
>
> Reaching out to Fon to sponsor the kickstarter could be even better :-)
>
> Regards, Dave
>
> On 22 Feb 2011, 4:13 PM, "Arthur Lutz" <arthur.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Tom Jaster <futur3.tom at googlemail.com>
> wrote: > > Am 19.02.2011 um ...
> Hi tom,
>
> Your argument about the black box is quite good, but let me turn it around.
>
> I might get criticism for this but bear with me, let me use an example
> (which some people might not like). FON http://www.fon.com started as
> a community thing where you would install firmware on your wifi to
> share it and then your account would enable you to use the shared
> access of others. One of the ideas was to get internet access
> providers to adopt the idea and enable it on all their customer' s
> boxes. A few years later, a few companies worldwide joined it (or
> stole the idea) and now FON is a (not-so-nice as at the start)
> company. I'm not with FON anymore but in France this is pretty big and
> you get shared wifi everywhere you go.
>
> Maybe, someday we will have sufficient weight and attractiveness to
> inspire internet providers to include debian freedombox distribution
> in their boxes ? These are boxes that are always on (usually because
> the phone is connected to it) and are growing to be as powerful as
> plug computers. And if the internet providers are not willing to
> follow the movement, a few projects for flashing the firmware of their
> boxes are out there.
>
> I'm sorry if the "box"  model only applies to France... but I'm pretty
> sure there are others out there.
>
> Arthur
>
> ps. if some of this needs clarification, feel free to ask
>
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