On 06/23/2012 04:21 AM, Frank Corrigan wrote:

Does anyone know of any research being done on the use of low-cost single board mini computers to run the likes of online circumvention tools like VPN, Tor, Gibberbot etc

The Guardian Project...?

Whilst these boards have been around for sometime, since the introduction of Rasberry Pi, interest has grown and now there are many boards are being created like:

Rasberry Pi easily runs Debian - so it's basically the same as the Torouter project with different hardware: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Torouter

ARM Mini PCs http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/10/product_round_up_arm_mini_computers_th... http://liliputing.com/2012/06/74-mk802-android-4-0-mini-pc-first-impressions...

Yep that's what we did with the Excito and the DreamPlug.

Android OS and other Linux OS appears to run easily on these boards and allows for use of software from the likes of: https://guardianproject.info/apps/ and http://www.whispersys.com/ (sadly now defunct)

Some of these boards are also so cheap as to be disposable single use, or at least simple reuse after OS/Data erase.

There are some really nice things coming soon.

I am looking at how easy it would be to develop and use a Linux OS that only runs from the board's ram (LiveCD/USB/SDcard), such as TAILs <http://tails.boum.org>

Use Tails. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE