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If IP anonymity is important to you, and you find yourself using different computers and internet connections on a regular basis, the Janus Team’s new TOR privacy adapter, the JanusPA, could be the solution. Plugged in-line between either your computer and modem, computer and router, or modem and router, it automatically establishes either a TOR or OpenVPN connection to hide your true IP address.
The adapter is powered either by an external wall-wart AC plug or from the bus power of two USB ports, making it reasonably portable. Its brain is a Gumstix Connex 400mx motherboard, which you may want to pick up sooner rather than later as the company is planning on phasing them out after December 31st. Obviously the JanusPA will soon get a casing, too.
All of the settings will be handled by a web interface, and the whole thing is plug & play. Establishing a secure connection takes no more than 60 seconds. The Janus Team will be putting up the full schematics, software and everything else soon.
[via Hack a Day]
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This is cool,but the only thing that I am concerned with is I checked out the prices of everything & to make this thing it is much to expensive & plus it uses the TOR Network if I understand this correctly & everyone that has used the TOR network knows that it is very slow because of all the leechers.Now the OpenVPN connection may be cool,but with the price I can understand maybe $129.99 For everything, but
1.) $129.00 for just the 1st part which is (gumstix connex 400xm
[GS400J-XM]) aka(Connex 400mx Motherboard).
2.)$94.00 for the 2rd part which is (netDUO-mmc
[BRD00143]) aka(netDUO-mmc/SD expansion board)
3.)$10.00 for the 3rd part which is (4.0 volt power adapter
[PWR003])
4.)$4.00 for the 4th part which is (Screws & Spacers kit
[KIT0013]).
All Parts equal out to: ( $237.00). Wow,but still a cool project & I wish they were already made & someone sold them all ready & put together,but the price should be around $129.99.Good Idea, but way to much for me when I can just take an old pc & openVPN Connection or purchase a monthly filter VPN Tunneling service which I have tested before & works really nice atleast for me & it is $20.22 per month & you can download at broadband speeds & there download limit is for 30 days or 50GB of transfer, whichever comes first & you can purchase more per month if you like, but for me 50GB per month is more then enough for torrenting. You can find it at https://www.vpntunnel.co.uk/index.php & I do not know if it is the best or not, but it sure is easier & less pain free & less expensive to me. I am new to this site & I hope I am not breaking any rules buy posting this website,only trying to share info on this topic thats it.Soryy if I am not suppose to be posting links. I will go later to read your rules so next time I will know what I can do & what I cant. Enjoy peeps!
Thanks for the feedback, ghostaliaz, and for the cost breakdown. You’re right, at those prices it does make the JanusPA an expensive project; hopefully someone will step in to make a cheaper (Arduino based?) version using this as a proof of concept.
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