AnonaBox

[joshmanz]

Does anyone know about this router that claims it can make you anonymous on the interwebs using tor or vpn? Anonabox

[tt2468]

Well here are some amazon reviews of it: https://www.amazon.com/Anonabox-Tor-Hardware-Onion-Router/dp/B00VVJIJHA/ref=sr_1_1?m=A21O7MLZMMHJUM&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1443192532&sr=1-1&Amazon+Clicks=&tag=smarturl-20&_ga=1.239913411.1724814603.1493147622#customerReviews

 

NEver personally heard of it though.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, joshmanz said:

Does anyone know about this router that claims it can make you anonymous on the interwebs using tor or vpn? Anonabox

or you could just run tails/tor on your computer...

 

This won't really help you too much.

 

TOR is very slow, like you takes anouther second for every site slow.

 

Almost every higherend and buiness grade router has a vpn client and server build in.

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, tt2468 said:

Well here are some amazon reviews of it: https://www.amazon.com/Anonabox-Tor-Hardware-Onion-Router/dp/B00VVJIJHA/ref=sr_1_1?m=A21O7MLZMMHJUM&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1443192532&sr=1-1&Amazon+Clicks=&tag=smarturl-20&_ga=1.239913411.1724814603.1493147622#customerReviews

 

NEver personally heard of it though.

Thanks for the link. My dad always told me that something to good to be true usually is. Is it possible that this really works?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, joshmanz said:

Thanks for the link. My dad always told me that something to good to be true usually is. Is it possible that this really works?

its just a tor vpn, you can do this for free by installing tor on your system.

[tt2468]

Just now, joshmanz said:

Thanks for the link. My dad always told me that something to good to be true usually is. Is it possible that this really works?

It's possible, but looking at the specs of these boxes, they don't seem to have hardware encryption, which for secure tunneling, is important. If the encryption is left to the CPU, performance will be VERY slow. People are saying that these are just generic boards with a modded install of openwrt.

 

You could get the pfsense SG-1000, and turn it into an openvpn router, but I can't confirm that you would get the results you want.

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

or you could just run tails/tor on your computer...

 

This won't really help you too much.

 

TOR is very slow, like you takes anouther second for every site slow.

 

Almost every higherend and buiness grade router has a vpn client and server build in.

Along your line of thinking, I called a number I found online and asked why would I pay for somthing that i can get for free. He told me that VPN/Tor run on a pc only protects the browser but when placed in-line with your router it works as a filter to protect all info coming and going. Does this make logical sense?

[Donut417]

7 minutes ago, joshmanz said:

Does anyone know about this router that claims it can make you anonymous on the interwebs using tor or vpn? Anonabox

Looks like it uses TOR. I thought the NSA and FBI and CIA and many other 3 letters of the alphabet already cracked TOR? 

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

its just a tor vpn, you can do this for free by installing tor on your system.

Its my understanding that its tor or vpn or tor+vpn. Anonabox.com

 

[tt2468]

1 minute ago, joshmanz said:

Along your line of thinking, I called a number I found online and asked why would I pay for somthing that i can get for free. He told me that VPN/Tor run on a pc only protects the browser but when placed in-line with your router it works as a filter to protect all info coming and going. Does this make logical sense?

Sort of. I think there are ways to route all your traffic through Tor, but generally it is limited to web browsing.

 

OpenVPN routes everything though.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, joshmanz said:

Along your line of thinking, I called a number I found online and asked why would I pay for somthing that i can get for free. He told me that VPN/Tor run on a pc only protects the browser but when placed in-line with your router it works as a filter to protect all info coming and going. Does this make logical sense?

You could also setup tor as a vpn on your computer, and not mess with the whole network with some programs or tails.

 

Using that box will make anything that cares about latency suck. So no gaming, video chatting will be laggy, web pages will be slower, downloads will be slow.

https://reqrypt.org/tallow.html

What are you trying to protect yourself against?

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Looks like it uses TOR. I thought the NSA and FBI and CIA and many other 3 letters of the alphabet already cracked TOR? 

thoughts so too but did a search and its only cracked on people that are infected with government malware.

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, tt2468 said:

Sort of. I think there are ways to route all your traffic through Tor, but generally it is limited to web browsing.

 

OpenVPN routes everything though.

Is openvpn hardware or soft?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Looks like it uses TOR. I thought the NSA and FBI and CIA and many other 3 letters of the alphabet already cracked TOR? 

yep they have, but its still much better than not using it. 

 

If your trying to stay private, the used laptop payed for in cash using a public wifi hotspot, is pretty hard to beat.

[tt2468]

Just now, joshmanz said:

thoughts so too but did a search and its only cracked on people that are infected with government malware.

See this: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/119146/tor-cracked-how-do-you-think-the-fbi-did-it

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, joshmanz said:

Is openvpn hardware or soft?

its software, just like tor, but you can install it on a deticated hardware box.

[tt2468]

Just now, joshmanz said:

Is openvpn hardware or soft?

Well it's not a hardware standard, but it is able to use hardware crypto devices to offload some of the hard work.

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You could also setup tor as a vpn on your computer, and not mess with the whole network with some programs or tails.

 

Using that box will make anything that cares about latency suck. So no gaming, video chatting will be laggy, web pages will be slower, downloads will be slow.

https://reqrypt.org/tallow.html

What are you trying to protect yourself against?

Not sure yet. I seen a add from this company and just said to my self, I am not really doing anything to protect myself. I started looking at VPN and found that most log your info and tor does not protect who computer. 

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yep they have, but its still much better than not using it. 

 

If your trying to stay private, the used laptop payed for in cash using a public wifi hotspot, is pretty hard to beat.

Ya, not that into it LOL. Just thought a novice could use this product easy. AKA me.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, joshmanz said:

Not sure yet. I seen a add from this company and just said to my self, I am not really doing anything to protect myself. I started looking at VPN and found that most log your info and tor does not protect who computer. 

all this does is hide you ip. 

 

Id just get a normal vpn over this for amlsot all uses.

 

since you don't have anything big you have to hide, stick with a normal vpn. 

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, tt2468 said:

See this: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/119146/tor-cracked-how-do-you-think-the-fbi-did-it

Thats what I thought too. The tor network was not cracked but infected nodes gave away the info. 

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

all this does is hide you ip. 

 

Id just get a normal vpn over this for amlsot all uses.

 

since you don't have anything big you have to hide, stick with a normal vpn. 

They do have a VPN router. 

[joshmanz]

WTF, lol. Look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team I think they are the ones selling the FBI, CIA, DOD and the DEA the software to infect the nodes. 

[The Benjamins]

 

[joshmanz]

2 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

 

I just read that lol. The sad news is that the Anonabox was attacked by a group called Hacking Team. Its on Wikileaks https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/64365. When you look up they guys that did this you will find that they worked for many 3 letter government bodies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team.