‘FreedomBox’ Is in Danger of an Early Death

"That is turnkey privacy. It’s turnkey anonymity. It’s turnkey security."

These are three things that are not offered as "turnkey" for a reason. They have serious usability impacts and in all but the most disruptive configurations tend to be incomplete and leaky. Trying to provide them in a magic appliance is either dangerous or improbable.

I don’t think I fully understand exactly what the FreedomBox does, but I hope it or something like it finds its way to market. Seems there would be an enormous demand for something that helps with online privacy if it is marketed well and is fairly easy to use for the average person.

How can I get involved with contributing to this project? I believe in the cause, I just can't do much programming yet.

Edit: Never mind, I found it under contribute on their site...

My mom don't know didly about servers (they work in a cafe and bring you food?) and logs (you burn them on a fire?) but she does know that her post should be private, that her taxes be private and that facebook and google should be able to find her whenever she checks a message.

she doesn't want some dissident sharing her Internet connection even tho she sympathizes, because she doesn't know what they'll be downloading.

she doesn't care about navigating the freedombox interface cos she has enough problems navigating the mall.

my mom represents the market, not her geeky daughter. her geeky daughter loves all this talk about proxytau and encrypt but let's not make this into a VHS recorder.

the background to the freedom box can be found in this talk "Freedom in The Cloud", by Eben Moglen at NYU 2010Feb05 ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA