Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All 225
An anonymous reader writes "From the NYTimes.com article: 'A Columbia law professor in Manhattan, Eben Moglen, [is] putting together a shopping list to rebuild the Internet — this time, without governments and big companies able to watch every twitch of our fingers. ... Put free software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen said. This month, he created the Freedom Box Foundation to organize the software.'"
Re:"Running a server" in violation of AUP (Score:5, Informative)
You can run a server with any ISP, but you can't use this server for BUSINESS if you have a residential plan
That's not what the acceptable use policies that I've read state. From Comcast Xfinity Internet AUP [comcast.com]:
From Verizon DSL and FiOS Internet AUP [verizon.net]:
Re:Rebuild the Internet... how exactly? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:wifi plus raid (Score:2, Informative)
Asus RT-N16 with tomato usb or ddwrt will do what you need.
it can take upto 2 usb hard drives and is gigabit multiband with n. and costs 100 bux or so.
Re:"Running a server" in violation of AUP (Score:4, Informative)
Re:err. what. (Score:5, Informative)
Here's my fuller story on what Moglen and company have in mind:
Freedom Box: Freeing the Internet one Server at a time
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/freedom-box-freeing-the-internet-one-server-at-a-time/698 [zdnet.com]
The short version is that the idea is to make it possible for you to use the Internet as freely and privately as possible no matter what restrictions governments, businesses or ISPs have in mind.
It still won't help if your government does an Egypt and pulls the plug, but short of that, it has real possibilities.
Steven
Re:"Running a server" in violation of AUP (Score:5, Informative)
Yes. I tried running a home server. And all I got was this lousy service cancellation.
Watch Eben Moglen's FOSDEM keynote (Score:4, Informative)