[tor-talk] Excito's B3 and TOR

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 03/03/2011 04:48 AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Håken Hveem <krbjhvee at online.no>
> wrote:
>> I have mentioned Tor and Excito in : 
>> http://isprins.blogspot.com/2010/12/excito-b3-and-internet-freedom.html
>>
>>
>> 
Since i mailed Excito and Tor and suggested that a cooperation to create
the worlds first box with a built in  Tor router, the developers of Tor
got a pair of free B3 units to play around with.
>> 
>> The Result:
>> 
>> Tor will be included in B3's software by default, and can be set as
>> a client, bridge, non-exit relay, or exit relay. The only thing
>> remaining is this bug:
>> 
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2594
>> 
>> Tor functions should be available when Excito releases a update of
>> the software, so a simple update from the web interface should
>> suffice.
>> 
>> It is also mentioned on my blog: 
>> http://isprins.blogspot.com/2011/03/excitos-b3-and-tor.html
> 
> Thanks for the links. I am going to take a closer look at #2594 this 
> month and I'm hoping that we'll see a usable web interface for Tor 
> configuration on the B3 real soon.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions.
> 

It's probably the case that we'll want the Tor package on the B3
platform to enable tor-fw-helper by default.

All the best,
Jake