Market for secure systems, ICLOAK puts Nix/Tor/TBB/etc on USB raises $95k

rysiek rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Thu Jul 24 15:46:33 PDT 2014


Dnia czwartek, 24 lipca 2014 18:13:32 grarpamp pisze:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, rysiek <rysiek at 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.
> 
> 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.

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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