2010/9/2 Jon Spriggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@sprig.gs">jon@sprig.gs</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2010/9/2 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <<a href="mailto:bre@beanstalks-project.net">bre@beanstalks-project.net</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Although I think it would be great if Freedom Boxes came preconfigured and<br>
> able to use Tor, I do think that if whatever gets built ends up being<br>
> incompatible with normal web browsers and e-mail clients, then it will never<br>
> get any traction and will never achieve its goals. If I can only connect<br>
> and communicate with other Freedom Box users, then there is no reason to buy<br>
> such a box in the first place. Chicken and egg. We have to be "backwards<br>
> compatible" with the "normal Internet".<br>
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</div>Personally, I think that for the most part, I'd expect, from home, to<br>
be accessing the front end without it connecting over TOR and only be<br>
using TOR when I'm outside of home - essentially, only using it from<br>
untrusted locations - essentially what I'd use TOR Hidden Services for<br>
on the whole.<br></blockquote><div><br>Sure, if you are the only person who ever accesses your server, that's perfectly reasonable.<br><br>I however have this desire to run my own web-server, my blog, my home-page, my photo-album - all on a Freedom Box (or just my Linux server, since I know how to set one up), where all the data is under my control, in my house. I also might want to run my own SMTP server, so mail can be delivered directly to me... I want my box to be reachable using traditional protocols from the rest of the world, so I can share stuff with my friends and family who haven't discovered TOR yet and haven't got Freedom Boxes of their own. <br>
<br>So that's what I'm working on.<br><br>We are probably just thinking about completely separate use-cases, and I suspect both are perfectly valid. :-)<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br><br><a href="http://beanstalks-project.net/">http://beanstalks-project.net/</a><br>
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