You can carry a privacy-minded wireless hotspot in your pocket

Stefan Mileschin · 15th August 2014, 08:29

Devices like the Safeplug can deter companies and governments from snooping on your devices at home, but they're not much good when you're on the road. That's where the PORTAL (Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty) project comes into play. Load...

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jmke · 15th August 2014, 12:21

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The main drawback of PORTAL is that it currently isn’t a hardware product—it’s a Github download that must be “flashed” onto a TP-Link compatible pocket router. “The whole build process, management, etc. wasn't available at Def Con,” Lackey said. “Turning this into a tool directly usable by end users, or at least "power users" or sysadmins responsible for a group of users, is important, and something we're working on

we're not there yet.

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Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,597	You can carry a privacy-minded wireless hotspot in your pocket Devices like the Safeplug can deter companies and governments from snooping on your devices at home, but they're not much good when you're on the road. That's where the PORTAL (Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty) project comes into play. Load... http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/14/p...=rss_truncated

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