All Packages Needed For FreedomBox Now In Debian 54
Eben Moglen's FreedomBox concept (personal servers for everyone to enable private communication) is getting closer to being an easy-to-install reality: all packages needed for FreedomBox are now in Debian's unstable branch, and should be migrating to testing in a week or two. Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen: "Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable. It was the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images during build and on the first boot. Now all one need to get going is the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from Debian. And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can build everything directly from Debian. :)
Some key packages used by Freedombox are freedombox-setup, plinth, pagekite, tor, privoxy, owncloud, and dnsmasq. There are plans to integrate more packages into the setup. User documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki."
You can create your own image with only three commands, at least if you have a DreamPlug or Raspberry Pi (you could also help port it to other platforms).
In plain English, what's a FreedomBox? (Score:4, Interesting)
A 3 sentence description that doesn't use meaningless mumbo-jumbo vision statement as found on the linked wiki?
(a summary of its goals and how it compares to prior art?)
In Plain English: Security Crap (Score:5, Interesting)
Anything that claims to boost your privacy and security should not have something like pagekite included. I have just visited their home page and this is what greeted me as 2 step "linux flight plan":
$ curl -s https://pagekite.net/pk/ [pagekite.net] |sudo bash
$ pagekite.py 80 yourname.pagekite.me
Am I stupid or what? Open my root account to some website page? Flight Plan to hell. Looking forward to somebody who will hack that site to create one file there saying "rm -rf /" LOL
Re:In Plain English: Security Crap (Score:5, Interesting)
$ curl -s https://pagekite.net/pk/ [pagekite.net] |sudo bash
I've noticed this kind of crap more and more often lately, usually as one of the "preferred" methods of installation for projects on GitHub. Who in their right mind would run that? There's a reason why we have package systems and a method of signing said packages. Blindly trusting some website with root shell access... boggles my mind.