[tor-dev] Tor on TV (hemm, on WDTV!) - TorTV

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)]

Hi all,

TorTV Project has been implemented by Jaromil:

TorTV : http://dyne.org/software/tortv/
Jaromil : http://rastasoft.org - @jaromil

Cool, testing have to be done!

-naif


On 11/23/11 8:57 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i got a WDTV Live
> (http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=1003&lang=en) that's
> part of bigger family of consumer mediaplayer from Western Digital
> (http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?level1=10&lang=en).
> 
> It seems it can run Tor without any major issue.
> There is a very nice hacked firmware community around WDTV users, that's
> a very cheap hardware (retail price 70-80EUR).
> 
> What's about making a "promotional" campaign like for the Tor Cloud to
> have people running Tor Relay "right on their TV" ?
> 
> I mean, the "hacked firmware" installation process of WDTV works that way:
> - Plug an USB Key formatted FAT32 with 3 files (boot, kernel, image) on WDTV
> - Poweron
> 
> So it may be possible to make a campaign where users are invited to "run
> their tor relay" on their TV in 3 simple steps:
> - Get a USB Key
> - Load that files on it
> - Plug to your WDTV
> - Poweron your WDTV
> You are now helping poor sirian, iranian and chinese censored people.
> 
> That way even the average fat guy sitting on his couch drinking beer and
> eating wing chicken can support freedom of speech.
> 
> That kind of user can just "poweron" the WDTV and with his "remote
> control" after seeing his favorite telefilm on paytv, can just "zap" to
> see how his Tor Router is working: On TV!
> 
> This could be defined as the "very lazy Tor user" who doesn't even want
> to use a computer, but just do TV zapping :P
> 
> So, the idea could be to do a custom hacked firmware of WDTV and a WDTV
> Apps that you can "click" via remote control, seeing the statistics of
> your Tor Relay.
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux WDTVLIVE 2.6.22.19-19-4 #28 PREEMPT Mon Mar 22 20:08:14 CST 2010
> mips GNU/Linux
> 
> # tor --version
> Jan 01 15:41:37.533 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.32 (git-877e17749725ab88). This
> is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity.
> (Running on Linux mips)
> Tor version 0.2.2.32 (git-877e17749725ab88).
> 
> # free
>               total         used         free       shared      buffers
>   Mem:       199056       193664         5392            0        10832
>  Swap:            0            0            0
> Total:       199056       193664         5392
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> system type             : Sigma Designs TangoX
> processor               : 0
> cpu model               : MIPS 24K V7.12  FPU V0.0
> Initial BogoMIPS        : 332.59
> wait instruction        : yes
> microsecond timers      : yes
> tlb_entries             : 32
> extra interrupt vector  : yes
> hardware watchpoint     : yes
> ASEs implemented        : mips16
> shadow register sets    : 1
> VCED exceptions         : not available
> VCEI exceptions         : not available
> 
> System bus frequency    : 333000000 Hz
> CPU frequency           : 499500000 Hz
> DSP frequency           : 333000000 Hz
> 
> 
> -naif