Freedom Box

[amannamedtruth]

I was listening to KEXP and there was a guy talking about this...
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/

Learn About the FreedomBox!

Eben Moglen explained the FreedomBox in a short interview with the CBS Evening News. We also have a one page flyer that explains the box quickly and easily to lay people. Print and distribute it at your next conference!
What is FreedomBox?

• Email and telecommunications that protects privacy and resists eavesdropping
• A publishing platform that resists oppression and censorship.
• An organizing tool for democratic activists in hostile regimes.
• An emergency communication network in times of crisis.

FreedomBox will put in people's own hands and under their own control encrypted voice and text communication, anonymous publishing, social networking, media sharing, and (micro)blogging.
Much of the software already exists: onion routing, encryption, virtual private networks, etc. There are tiny, low-watt computers known as "plug servers" to run this software. The hard parts is integrating that technology, distributing it, and making it easy to use without expertise. The harder part is to decentralize it so users have no need to rely on and trust centralized infrastructure.
That's what FreedomBox is: we integrate privacy protection on a cheap plug server so everybody can have privacy. Data stays in your home and can't be mined by governments, billionaires, thugs or even gossipy neighbors.
With FreedomBoxes in their homes, anybody, regardless of technical skill, can easily enjoy secure, private, even anonymous communication!
Why FreedomBox?

FreedomBox integrates privacy protection on a cheap plug server so everybody can have privacy. Data stays in your home and can't be mined by governments, billionaires, thugs or even gossipy neighbors. Other practical examples where FreedomBox is useful:

• FreedomBoxes are encrypted web proxies. Boxes in uncensored countries can bounce signals for users stuck behind censorship walls---each one is a tiny crack in the Great Firewall. Chinese users could surf the entire net free from government censorship.
• The US government famously sought information about internal WikiLeaks communications from Twitter and other social websites. By moving our communication from centralized monoliths to decentralized servers in our homes, we protect our data from government prying.
• Many whistleblowers and dissidents need to anonymously talk to media and the public. With the FreedomBox, we can use VOIP to encrypt telephone calls and can create anonymous web servers over TOR to publish documents. Anonymous instant messaging or microblogging are also possible.
• Egyptian Democracy activists had trouble talking to demonstrators in the streets because the Mubarak regime shutdown parts of the internet as well as many cellular networks. If our internet plug is pulled, the box will use mesh routing to talk to other boxes like it. If any of them can get a packet across the border, they all can.
• FreedomBoxes are useful on a daily personal level too. That same proxy technology can scrub web sites of ads and tracking technology as you use them, thus protecting your privacy. FreedomBoxes help you encrypt your email. They also know who your friends are and can back up your data in encrypted form to their FreedomBoxes. You can get your data back even if you don't know your password. Even absent a crisis, privacy matters.
• FreedomBox is free software, which means you can freely inspect it, audit it, study it and improve it.

For a list of specific FreedomBox capabilities, check out our Goals page.
Who is FreedomBox?

FreedomBox is a collaborative project of programmers around the world who believe in Free Software, Free Society. Many of its members will come from the Debian community, and many will come from other corners of the Free World. Bdale Garbee, former Debian Project Leader is the project's Tech Lead. FreedomBox is organized into WorkingGroups.
The FreedomBox Foundation, which supports the FreedomBox Project and conserves the free software it makes, is led by Executive Director James Vasile and its President, Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center.
A fuller description of our team can be found on the team page.
FAQ

The Foundation published an FAQ that starts to answer the more common questions about next steps and how we relate to the rest of the community.
Talks, Press and Appearances

We announce and document talks, press and appearances here. We also collect recordings of FreedomBox Foundation appearances and press on our Media Archive.

Here's a video explaining...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8dMrI74Ti4M

 

[amannamedtruth]

And Eben Moglen speaking at HOPE Number 9 in NYC about Walled Gardens and the First Law of Robotics.

He goes on to explain smart phones (or as I like to call them, hand computers...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY43zF_eHu4&feature=youtu.be

From their youtube page....

Here's a link to buy it on their store:
http://store.2600.com/howtorefilaw.html

Where: Hotel Pennsylvania, NY, NY

When: 2012-7-15 13:00

Who: Eben Moglen

This Sunday, Eben Moglen will be speaking at the ninth annual Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania, in midtown Manhattan. His talk will be called "How to Retrofit the First Law of Robotics"

Abstract:

We live with robots now, as we always knew we would. But they have no hands or feet. We carry them in our pockets. They see what we see. They hear what we hear. They always know where we are. But they do not work for us, and they are not programmed to obey the First Law. Profit made them, profit runs them, and they hurt us every day. Free Software can retrofit the First Law of Robotics into the robots we call cell phones, but those who control the robots don't want freedom inside. That's where we come in. This talk will discuss how.

HOPE Number Nine
The Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC
Sunday, 2012 July 15
1:00 PM in room "Dennis"

Available records

Transcript posted August 3, 2012

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2012/hope_moglen-speech-2012.html

 

[Ohmless]

price?

 

[amannamedtruth]

I'm not sure. Just trying to make people aware of our options.

 

[fido]

thank you

 

[barefootseeds]

good concept, also curious what it costs