Anonabox router brings the anonymity of Tor to the masses

In the arms race against dragnet surveillance of Internet users, startups are mobilizing to build tools to help users combat overreaching governments and overly invasive advertising practices. Tools such as the Blackphone smartphone built by Silent Circle and Geeksphone, which promotes encrypted services for calls, messaging, browsing and cloud storage. Well here’s another pro-privacy tool in the making: Anonabox is an open-source, plug-and-play hardware router designed to encrypt and route all the users’ web traffic via the Tor anonymizing network, so their browsing and location remains private. No additional software is required for the device to function. Of course it’s not necessary to have a hardware box to use Tor — the network can be access by downloading the Tor software – but the idea here is to use a dedicated Tor router to simplify the process of anonymizing all your Internet traffic.