RichCor Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 From an article linked below: The sale and distribution of the Proxyham anonymous Internet browsing device, source code and blueprints has been stopped in its tracks a month before launch. At the beginning of this month, security researcher Benjamin Caudill from Rhino Security Labs unveiled Proxyham, a device small enough to be slotted into a book and squirrelled away in a separate location from the user in order to confuse Internet traffic tracking systems. Proxyham is a $200 device made up of a Raspberry Pi PC and antennas. The product uses low-frequency radio channels to connect to public Wi-Fi hotspots up to 2.5 miles away, and if a user's signature is traced, the only IP address which appears is from the Proxyham box which can be planted far away from the user. Caudill was quoted as saying, "You can have it all the way across town, and worst case scenario the police go barge into the library across town." This, in itself, may be an indication as to why the device's launch, meant to take place at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas next month, has met a sudden and abrupt end. Launch of $200 device to access Wi-Fi anonymously mysteriously stopped in its tracks ZDNET | By Charlie Osborne | July 14, 2015 Anonymizing Wi-Fi device with 2.5 mile range just mysteriously disappeared from Def Con BGR | By Yoni Heisler | Jul 14, 2015 Wouldn't you have look a little conspicuous plugging a cardboard box into an AC outlet, then walking away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Not if you walk in dressed in overalls and tell them you've been sent to do some routine maintenance.... It's called social engineering. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10322536/Barclays-hacking-attack-gang-stole-1.3-million-police-say.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avander Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Maybe one of them U.S. Homeland Security issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaeton Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 I wonder if them shutting this down gives us any indication of how NOT worried the authorities are about the other supposed anonymizing services. I know some of those servers etc. are difficult for the authorities to access, but still. Thanks for the article. I had read about this device and it seemed interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 NSA won't like it.....or the developer committed suicide by shooting himself 3 times in the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMHO Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I reckon it's disappeared because it was a hoax.. How do you connect to Wi-FI, which has a very narrow range of channels in what can only be described as "high frequencies" (2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz), using low frequency transmissions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 ^^^ Yep. I questioned the 'low frequencies' too, as neither leg of the hop could use them. I can see the advantage basing it on pure WiFi, there isn't built-in precision geo-location or direction finding equipment like there are for 3G/LTE signals, so the portable anonymizing WiFi proxy wouldn't be easy to initially locate, then once found identifying it's connected clients and direction finding / triangulating them ... not a quick task. So why pull it? Unless some claim was falsified or completely outrageous. But I doubt this thing is difficult to design and build. I would bet it already exists many times over, just not highly publicized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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