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Title: Anonymizing Wi-Fi Device Project Unexpectedly Halted
Author: help@slashdot.org
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:36:00 -0400
Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Vb7bUmaJBnA/anonymizing-wi-fi-device-project-unexpectedly-halted

An anonymous reader notes that a project to develop an anonymizing Wi-Fi device
has been canceled under mysterious circumstances. The device, called Proxyham,
was unveiled a couple weeks ago by Rhino Security Labs. They said it would use
low-frequency radio channels to connect a computer to public Wi-Fi hotspots up
to 2.5 miles away, thus obscuring a user's actual location. But a few days ago
the company announced it would be halting development and canceling a talk
about it at Def Con, which would have been followed with a release of
schematics and source code. They apologized, but appear to be unable to say
anything further. "In fact, all [the speaker] can say is that the talk is
canceled, the ProxyHam source code and documentation will never be made public,
and the ProxyHam units developed for Las Vegas have been destroyed. The banner
at the top of the Rhino Security website promoting ProxyHam has gone away too.
It's almost as if someone were trying to pretend the tool never existed." The
CSO article speculates that a government agency killed the project and issued a
gag order about it. A post at Hackaday calls this idea absurd and discusses the
hardware needed to build a Proxyham. They say using it would be "a violation of
the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, and using encryption over radio violates FCC
regulations. That’s illegal, it will get you a few federal charges — but so
will blowing up a mailbox with some firecrackers." They add, "What you’re
seeing is just the annual network security circus and it’s nothing but a show."

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