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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Promising but not much help to the non tech types

Ryan Lackey of CloudFlare and Marc Rogers of Lookout revealed a new OPSEC device at Def Con called PORTAL (Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty).

 It "provides always-on Tor routing, as well as 'pluggable' transport for Tor that can hide the service's traffic signature from some deep packet inspection systems." 

 In essence, PORTAL is a travel router that the user simply plugs into their existing device for more than basic Tor protection (counterpoint to PogoPlug Safeplug and Onion Pi).

 On the down side, you have to download PORTAL from Github and flash it "onto a TP-Link compatible packet router." The guys behind the device acknowledge that not many people may want to (or even know how to) do that, so they're asking everyone to standby because a solution is pending.

  The project's GitHub page has a README file that lists compatible models, with some caveats: "It is highly recommended to use a modified router.

 The modified MR11U and WR703N provide a better experience than the stock routers due to the additional RAM.

The severe space constraints of the stock router make them very challenging to work with.

Due to the lack of usable space, it is necessary to use an external disk to store the Tor packages. The stock router has only a single USB port, and the best option is to use a microSD in a 3G modem."

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