On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Runa A. Sandvik <runa.sandvik@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
DreamPlug is a new plug computer from GlobalScale Technologies:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx. The spec
looks good, it runs Ubuntu by default and it doesn't cost too much. I
thought that the DreamPlug was going to be very user friendly and a
potential candidate for the Torouter project. (Maybe) I was wrong.
When the SheevaPlug came out a couple of years ago, it shipped with a
web interface that enabled users to change various network options. I
thought the DreamPlug would ship with some kind of interface as well
(and my plan was to just plug in a Tor page). This is not the case; it
ships with lighthttpd by default and displays a static and very simple
placeholder page on 192.168.1.1.
That's great news. A complex web app is just a giant PITA and huge attack surface anyhow.
If we want to use the DreamPlug for the Torouter, we will have to
write a web interface for easy configuration of Tor. The interface
should probably also provide options to better secure the DreamPlug.
Downloading and installing Tor isn't a problem, but the configuration
side of things can be tricky for users who aren't used to the command
line.
Or perhaps we can just turn Tor on by default, ship tor-fw-helper and write a basic status of Tor out to a static html file?
Thoughts? Comments?
The Freedombox will likely run on the dream plug, it's the reference platform. I think we should work on ensuring that if we ship a dream plug, we ship a freedombox pre-configured to run Tor - this will likely be the case with the FB anyway:
Basically Tor needs some kind of webui package in Debian and we'd be good to go.
All the best from Egypt,
Jake