Are the New Tor-Based Anonymous Routers Just Snake Oil?

The rise and fall of the Anonabox Kickstarter helped create demand for anonymous routers, but can any of them deliver on the promise of anonymous browsing?

A recent Kickstarter campaign for a Tor-based anonymous router — Anonabox — was greeted with great excitement from users and the tech community before the project was shut down. In its wake, the desire for plug-and-play anonymous routers has been huge. There are new Kickstarter projects waiting to go, and suddenly, there are a lot of solutions available.

Anonabox piqued public interest in a big way before the campaign fell apart under accusations that the product was an improper use of Kickstarter and not original work.

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