Market for secure systems, ICLOAK puts Nix/Tor/TBB/etc on USB raises $95k
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Dnia środa, 23 lipca 2014 17:24:22 grarpamp pisze:
Snowden triggers flood of Crapware [was: Gruveo, more secure skype?]
I'll fork this one off to the Tor folks...
Here, have a chuckle: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/icloak/icloak-tm-stik-easy-powerful-onl...
Hat-tip to all the TAILS/Tor people here.
https://icloak.org/ At least it appears from the splashpage to be an open bundling of mostly open tools that are thought reasonably well of, ie: Nix, Tor, GnuPG. As opposed to being some new unheard of closed commercialware. Things like this could serve by dropping more 'crypto by default' on the net at the end user level (even if such users are their own newbie cannon fodder on a learning curve). And spreading Unix also helps shift marketshare and knowledge away from Windows long term. If my two minute read of this one is right, it would be hard to not give them some kudos. I don't know what amounts are typically fundraised and the donor counts, but $95k for something like this seems to indicate a demand for more secure/private systems in general. Maybe a million will sell and send some donations back.
Dnia czwartek, 24 lipca 2014 18:13:32 grarpamp pisze:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Dnia środa, 23 lipca 2014 17:24:22 grarpamp pisze:
Snowden triggers flood of Crapware [was: Gruveo, more secure skype?]
I'll fork this one off to the Tor folks...
Here, have a chuckle: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/icloak/icloak-tm-stik-easy-powerful-o nline-privacy-for-yo
Hat-tip to all the TAILS/Tor people here.
At least it appears from the splashpage to be an open bundling of mostly open tools that are thought reasonably well of, ie: Nix, Tor, GnuPG. As opposed to being some new unheard of closed commercialware. Things like this could serve by dropping more 'crypto by default' on the net at the end user level (even if such users are their own newbie cannon fodder on a learning curve). And spreading Unix also helps shift marketshare and knowledge away from Windows long term. If my two minute read of this one is right, it would be hard to not give them some kudos.
I don't know what amounts are typically fundraised and the donor counts, but $95k for something like this seems to indicate a demand for more secure/private systems in general.
Maybe a million will sell and send some donations back.
I haven't notice a single mention of TAILS, for example; nor any pledge to support the projects they are basing on. This for me is a very shady business. -- Pozdr rysiek
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