"A promotional video suggests several uses for the device, including using it to securely share Internet access with family and friends, or to stream live audio from sports games that are blocked in a specific region. "

First off, this is great project, but their promotional video makes me a bit upset with this company... Encouraging people to use this to get around blocks to allow streaming of their favorite sports game is just wrong, the service does not currently have bandwidth to even realistically do that, especially not for a massive amount of people to go out purchasing this device for that reason!

They are basically saying we are going to sell our devices by abusing a free network so we can make profits while carelessly screwing over the reporters that need their anonymity, people who's governments put such tight restrictions on their internet use, allowing the NSA to continue on their rapid spying technologies, and on and on!!!

Now if they sold these devices and claimed they were going to donate a sizable amount of bandwidth based on sales, or better yet make an easy to integrate feature that allows users to share their own bandwidth with the TOR network, then I would not feel so negative towards their promotional video's advertising high-bandwidth consumption such as a sports game!

Anyone consider what this will do to a neighborhood with multiple neighbors who decide to stream over WiFi at 4k? Or worse, an apartment building. There goes your smartphones wifi competing for RF spectrum, or if anything it will try to compete by increasing the transmit to get it's signal heard killing your battery that much faster.

The need for more WiFi spectrum may be rapidly approaching. They need to make a specification that doesn't allow channel bonding, something that is optimized for multiple connected devices that all can get a respectable speed and doesn't allow a small few to consume it all.

but but... the quality is better, I can now see the expiration date on the license plate when I smash my eyeball into the screen

If there is some way to dramatically speed up the decryption that is discovered later on(or discovered and not publicly known), the increase of iterations could be next to meaningless. It is best to use 2 or more forms of encryption than a single form and adding multiple times more iterations to. I am not familiar with the PBKDF2-RIPEMD160 that is used in VeraCrypt, it could already be using multiple forms of proven-strong encryption standards... I do believe TrueCrypt allowed you to select from multiple different forms of encryption as well as using more than one, I would imagine and hope the same with VeraCrypt.

It could become automated after simply entering the numbers into a password list to then create a combo list from... It would be interesting to calculate this out to see the strength if they can still torture your pw's system out of you. Maybe first bill first digit, second bill is second digit, and so on, maybe last 3 bills you do some math formula, etc.

That is what you would call Plausible Deny-ability I do belive :) Just like what truecrypt has, but this is the non-tech version. Knowing police today, you would get charged with something that amounts to nearly the same crime, like an obstruction of justice along with destruction of evidence, and what not else they have for their plan B when they want to screw someone over.

Ya you missed the point...

"Here, the law says they can't compel you to produce an encryption key, except under very particular, special circumstances."

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES is a value of degree that is sadly becoming more and more vague to cover a large amount of people and I wouldn't be surprised if not now, eventually law enforcement will have enough ways to make that include every single person on this planet with their abusive framing tactics.

Imagine if your in China or South Korea, that method could be very useful or even corrupt cops or non-law-enforcement could still use torture on you. You could decide to take that wad and toss it up in the air or not. But at the same time, you could easily loose all your data if anything happened to that stack of bills, making that secret information gone at the cost of having such security system.

I wonder tho, if they beat the method out of you even with the stack of bills all out of order, could they do a combo brute force attack to crack the password??

"A promotional video suggests several uses for the device, including using it to securely share Internet access with family and friends, or to stream live audio from sports games that are blocked in a specific region. "

First off, this is great project, but their promotional video makes me a bit upset with this company... Encouraging people to use this to get around blocks to allow streaming of their favorite sports game is just wrong, the service does not currently have bandwidth to realistically do that, especially not for a massive amount of people to go out purchasing this device for that reason!

They are basically saying we are going to sell our devices by abusing a free network so we can make profits while carelessly screwing over the reporters that need their anonymity, people who's governments put such tight restrictions on their internet use, allowing the NSA to continue on abusing their spying technologies, and on and on!!!

Now if they sold these devices and claimed they were going to donate a sizable amount of bandwidth based on sales, or better yet make an easy to integrate feature that allows users to share their own bandwidth with the TOR network, then I would not feel so negative towards their promotional video's advertising high-bandwidth consumption such as a sports game!

Too bad any long-distance wireless frequencies are regulated and would result in breaking the law with very stiff fines and possible jail sentences. Plus you could be sued from the big telcos for interfering with their paid-for air-waves. Even HAM radio does not allow noise or encryption to be transmitted over the radio waves.

You can always use an encrypted VOIP service I suppose, but technically that is controlled as well, not to mention that the NSA is also developing/buying 0-day exploits so they can break into your computer/router/modem/etc and spy on you that way so even the encryption will not be secure... A bit tin-foil paranoia on that level, but not impossible as it is already being done here in the USA, and who knows how many other things that they are doing that the public is unaware of or how bad it will get into the future.

Sadly, the prosecution can frame evidence to make you appear guilty by a legal definition, which in reality does not prove guilt.

The so-called burden of proof bar has been lowered to an seemingly vague level of crap! Even technicalities can be found as guilt, resulting in a severe sentence that any moral and intelligent person would think is ridiculous. But because it was a law and it is technically considered to be breaking the law, the judge still comes down with his hammer following his orders like a slave following their master to obey.

This is a really great tool!!!

You can look at your ISP and determine by using this tool which hours your ISP's network is running into a bottleneck(peak hours), and as well look at other ISP's to determine bandwidth/bottlenecks. Also, see if other ISP's may offer better deals if you like to have a good connection at peak hours. You can actually see how the ISP's are performing throughout the day, rather than being advertised as X-Mbit connection, only to find out those speeds are only reachable at 3A.M.

This tool is very damn cool, great for competition and could even be used to help determine if throttling is occurring.

I would gladly pay a 1x cost of $300 for a 5Mb connection! That is like 1-2 years of internet cost then afterwards it is free!!!

$30 is a steal that I would expect my Google fibre to inject Google ads into my web browser lol

Ya, in reality it is more about their 'agenda' is now becoming a reality to maximize their profits while sneakily using monopolistic tactics. Good time to invest in their stocks I would say, at least you can have money saved for when your internet and cable TV bills start to increase.

If my entire state has hundreds of ISP's, but the block I live on is restricted to just one ISP; that to me is still a monopoly! If any ISP has a significant portion of their business market limited to only their own networks(and no, dial-up DOES NOT count as an alternative ISP), that too would be a monopoly that needs badly to be broken up and/or regulated. It seems like a vast majority of people do not understand how much tax money these giant ISP's have gotten for upgrading their networks with little to pretty much nothing to show for it... This alone should bring outrage, ontop of how poorly performing the network speeds are in comparison to several other countries. As much as I do not like government running stuff, I think this is an area that is in need of it! But in reality, I have a feeling many lobbyists have paid great sums of money to allow this to happen as well as putting in measures to ensure this remains.

I would really like a yearly checkup, but the costs are too expensive without first having expensive insurance. In the mean-time, the internet medical sites are my doctor and medications are all-natural products. Which has had a great benefit; I have had bad allergies my entire life and a doctor would cost $2000 from what I hear to diagnose allergies, but I found a natural medicine that 100% works(stinging nettle). Besides that benefit, if I went to a doctor for medication, I could most likely expect being given a prescription for allergies that are a gamble to if they work with a high probability of negative side-effects. It leaves me wondering if doctors and health insurance companies are noticing this as a trend resulting in less customers(patients) and a required health insurance plan by law is a heaven-sent(Obama-sent) gift for doctors and health insurance companies check books.