![]() Germar says he and his friends began thinking about the possibility for the device around the time of the Arab Spring in late 2010 and early 2011. The result, if Anonabox fulfills its security promises, is that it could become significantly easier to anonymize all your traffic with Tor-not just Web browsing, but email, instant messaging, filesharing and all the other miscellaneous digital exhaust that your computer leaves behind online. Anonabox's tiny size means users can carry the device with them anywhere, plugging it into an office ethernet cable to do sensitive work or in a cybercafe in China to evade the Great Firewall. It's also small enough to hide two in a pack of cigarettes. The $45 open-source router automatically directs all data that connects to it by ethernet or Wifi through the Tor network, hiding the user’s IP address and skirting censorship. Today a group of privacy-focused developers plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign for Anonabox. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple as putting a portable hardware condom on your ethernet cable. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. ![]() Editors' note: Updated below with clarifications about Germar’s claims of Anonabox using “custom” hardware.
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