In the game of anonymity-versus-surveillance online, the discovery of the users IP address usually means game over. But if Ben Caudill has his way, a network snoop who successfully hunts a user through layers of proxy connections to a final IP address would be met with a dead endwhile the anonymous user remains safe at home more than a mile away.
At the upcoming DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas next month, Caudill plans to unveil ProxyHam, a hardware proxy designed to use a radio connection to add a physical layer of obfuscation to an internet users location. His open-source device, which he built for $200, connects to Wi-Fi and relays a users Internet connection over a 900 megaherz radio connection to their faraway computer, with a range of between one and 2.5 miles depending on interference from the landscape and buildings. That means even if investigators fully trace the users internet connection, theyll find only the ProxyHam box the person planted in a remote library, cafe, or other public placeand not their actual location.
source http://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-...mbid=social_fb
At the upcoming DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas next month, Caudill plans to unveil ProxyHam, a hardware proxy designed to use a radio connection to add a physical layer of obfuscation to an internet users location. His open-source device, which he built for $200, connects to Wi-Fi and relays a users Internet connection over a 900 megaherz radio connection to their faraway computer, with a range of between one and 2.5 miles depending on interference from the landscape and buildings. That means even if investigators fully trace the users internet connection, theyll find only the ProxyHam box the person planted in a remote library, cafe, or other public placeand not their actual location.
source http://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-...mbid=social_fb