Re: [tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Hi Rob, On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:46:53PM +0100, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > The last month I have been playing with cheap Tor router hardware. This > turned out to be quite a nice experience and it got me thinking about > the benefits of running Tor on the router. There are many benefits, but

Re: [tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-24 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 01:22:01PM -0500, Nathan Freitas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, at 03:46 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > > My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both > > security and usability. It further opens new possibilities for expanding > > the Tor-network and

Re: [tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-24 Thread Nathan Freitas
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, at 03:04 PM, some_guy...@safe-mail.net wrote: > > My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both > > security and usability. > > You are dead wrong on that. (Semi-) transparent proxying is bad for quite > a few reasons. > Unless you know what you are doin

Re: [tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-24 Thread some_guy123
> My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both > security and usability. You are dead wrong on that. (Semi-) transparent proxying is bad for quite a few reasons. There is a huge number of applications with their own automatic update process that's insecure and vulnerable t

Re: [tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-24 Thread Nathan Freitas
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, at 03:46 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both > security and usability. It further opens new possibilities for expanding > the Tor-network and can provide a stable source of income for the > Tor-project. > Wrote an

[tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi folks, The last month I have been playing with cheap Tor router hardware. This turned out to be quite a nice experience and it got me thinking about the benefits of running Tor on the router. My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both security and usability. It further