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ProxyHam was a device that would let you share internet over traditional radio frequencies, enabling a user to be miles from the actual internet connection. A good tool for anonymity. It was supposed to be featured at Def Con, but has suddenly been shut down. All devices have been destroyed, no details will be released, according to the twitter of Rhino Security, the company behind the device.
This is possibly a National Security Letter, but due to their nature it's pretty hard to get that confirmed.
So if patents were not a problem, and if the FCC wasn't a problem - as confirmed by Caudill himself, why was this tool forced out of the public's reach? We may never know.
[...] For the record, I asked Caudill about getting a NSL, Caudill would only answer, "No comment."
I'd like to know what the commenters think. Was this actually rubbish like the AnonaBox and is this their elegant way to bow out? Or was this actually a solution that worked, and hence got shut down? Considering the fact these dudes wanted to demonstrate it at Def Con, it appears pretty legitimate.
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:03PM
Why not move to a country that has freedom instead of the freedom_until_it_becomes_inconvenient U.S?
And why is it not clear to the U.S that there are places other than the U.S inhabited by smart people?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:42PM
The goal was to get smart people not in the US to permanently move to the US. I think the government and industry became confused and are now getting that backwards. Entertainment has stolen the idea though and buys its sports players now.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:21PM
Why not move to a country that has freedom instead of the freedom_until_it_becomes_inconvenient U.S?
And that place would be where?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:14PM
Exactly - all countries are doing the same thing these days. I've been thinking of this for a while and I can't come up with a single place that offers me:
1 - English language (my brain can't handle other languages even though I was initially raised in a foreign language - no I can't explain that)
2 - Meaningful freedoms and not just the illusion of freedom.
When they say America is the world leader, they mean everyone else gives up trying to do better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @11:59PM
what about Iceland?
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:53PM
Iceland is like a village. Have you ever lived in a village? They can say they have whatever they want but the village wins. Good and bad.
There's more: Iceland is a village filled with invisible elves/fairies, I'm only gently poking fun at them: don't mind :)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @04:07AM
Where? Name me some places that aren't also up-and-coming police states and also aren't populated by morons. I want to gtfo of this shithole before its too late, but every other country is just as bad.