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Tor Browser Cheat TankPit – Video

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With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online

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No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple as putting a portable hardware condom on your ethernet cable.

Today a group of privacy-focused developers plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign for Anonabox. The $45 open-source router automatically directs all data that connects to it by ethernet or Wifi through the Tor network, hiding the users IP address and skirting censorship. Its also small enough to hide two in a pack of cigarettes. Anonaboxs tiny size means users can carry the device with them anywhere, plugging it into an office ethernet cable to do sensitive work or in a cybercafe in China to evade the Great Firewall. The result, if Anonabox fulfills its security promises, is that it could become significantly easier to anonymize all your traffic with Tornot just Web browsing, but email, instant messaging, filesharing and all the other miscellaneous digital exhaust that your computer leaves behind online.

Now all your programs, no matter what you do on your computer, are routed over the Tor network, says August Germar, one of the independent IT consultants who spent the last four years developing the Anonabox. He says it was built with the intention of making Tor easier to use not just for the softwares Western fans, but for those who really need it more Internet-repressive regimes. It was important to us that it be portable and smallsomething you can easily conceal or even throw away if you have to get rid of it.

Anonabox is by no means the first project to attempt to integrate Tor directly into a router. But Germar argues it will strike the best balance yet of cheapness, easy setup, size and security. Tor-in-a-box projects like Torouter and PORTAL, for instance, require the user to replace the software on a stock router. Another project called OnionPi is designed to be built one from a kit, and costs roughly twice as much as Anonabox.

In terms of consumer friendliness, the closest device yet to a plug-and-play Tor router has been Safeplug, a $49 variant on a Pogoplug router modified to route all traffic over Tor. But at more than twice the size, the Safeplug isnt nearly as portable as the Anonabox. And its also been criticized for security flaws; Researchers at Princeton found in September that it didnt have any authentication on its settings page. That means a hacker could use a technique called a Cross-Site Request Forgery to trick a user into clicking on a link that would change the routers functions or turn off its Tor routing altogether. It also uses an outdated version of Tor, one that had been updated even before the device shipped last year.

Anonaboxs security hasnt yet been audited for those sorts of flaws. But its creators point out that it will be entirely open source, so its code can be more easily scrutinized for errors and fixed if necessary.

The non-profit Tor project itself is reserving judgment for now. But its executive director Andrew Lewman tells WIRED hes keeping an eye on the project, and that it looks promising so far. Micah Lee, lead technologist for Glenn Greenwalds The Intercept and a frequent developer on Tor-related projects, says hes mostly encouraged by the idea. One of the potential vulnerabilities for Tor users, after all, is that a website they visit could run an exploit on their computer, installing malware that phones home to a server across a non-Tor connection to reveal their real IP address. If youre using something like this, everything goes over Tor, so that cant happen, Lee says. A Tor router can definitely have a big benefit in that theres physical isolation.

He nonetheless cautions that Anonabox alone wont fully protect a users privacy. If you use the same browser for your anonymous and normal Internet activities, for instance, websites can use browser fingerprinting techniques like cookies to identify you. Lee suggests that even when routing traffic over Tor with Anonabox, users should use the Tor Browser, a hardened browser that avoids those fingerprinting techniques. (To avoid running their traffic through Tor twice and reducing bandwidth speeds to a crawl, he points to a setting in the Tor Browser called transparent torification, which turns off the browsers own Tor routing.)

The Anonabox has been in the works since 2010, long enough that its developers have been able to evolve their own custom board as well as an injection-molded case. That customization, Germar says, means the tiny device still packs in 64 megabytes of storage and a 580 megahertz processor, easily enough to fit the Tor software and run it without any slowdowns.

Germar says he and his friends began thinking about the possibility for the device around the time of the Arab Spring in late 2010 and early 2011. The Anonabox is ultimately intended for users in other countries where Tors anti-censorship and privacy properties can help shield activists and journalists. It can be used in a cybercafe, for instance, where users cant easily install new software on computers. And its capable of so-called pluggable transportsextensions to Tor that often allow its traffic to better impersonate normal encrypted data.

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EB46 Shawn Wilkinson: StorJ, Crowdfunding and Decentralised Autonomous Apps – Video

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Bitcoin hopeful eyes ASX listing

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Bitcoin Group hopes to raise $20 million. Photo: Reuters

Melbourne-basedBitcoinGroup is hoping to list on the Australian Securities Exchange in November, making it one of the firstbitcoincompanies to float on an official stock exchange as governments across the world crack down on the largely unregulated digital currency sector.

BitcoinGroup, which currently manages an arbitrage fund, is hoping to raise $20 million at 20 a share from investors as part of its plan to morph the company into a consolidated payment network.

BitcoinGroup boss and founder Sam Lee currently manages a fund that capitalises onbitcoinmarket inefficiencies.

The company built an automated cyptocurrencytrading engine that moves money between majorbitcoinexchanges when prices deviate from the historical average, and has rewarded investors with 704 per cent gains since June 2013.

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Twenty-six-year-old Mr Lee has netted the support of Chinese millionaire Allan Gao, who made his fortunes through manufacturing, supplying and fitting fire-safety equipment in China.

Mr Gao has funded the lion's share of the company's pre-initial public offering expenses, including legal and broking fees.

Bitcoin's listing plans come at a critical time in the digital currency industry, as a Senate inquiry into the regulation ofbitcoinchaired by senator Sam Dastyari opens for submissions to develop a regulatory framework around the cryptocurrency.

Thebitcoinindustry is still seen as highly speculative and fraught with investor risk. The currency has soared as high as more than $US1000 a unit from less than $US1 just two years ago.

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Let’s Play Space Farmers 004 [HD] – Let’s Play with OmegaRainbow and MorgwenLP – Video

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Is UFO monitoring ISS astronauts during spacewalk? – Video

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Is UFO monitoring ISS astronauts during spacewalk?
Segment from International Space Station Live Feed of astronauts during spacewalk. UFO appears from the 1:40 to 1:52 in the original Youtube video uploaded by NASA: Source video: http://youtu.be/d.

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RapidScat "Wind Watcher" Installed on International Space Station – Video

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RapidScat "Wind Watcher" Installed on International Space Station
RapidScat Installed on the Int #39;l Space Station. NASA #39;s RapidScat "wind watcher" was unpacked from the Dragon capsule and installed on the International Space...

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Alien: Isolation – First Glimpse Of The Alien – Part 3 – Video

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Bigelow Inflatable Module to be Added to Space Station in 2015

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Artists concept of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), currently scheduled to be added to the International Space Station in 2015. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are going to be getting an addition in the near future, and in the form of an inflatable room no less. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is the first privately-built space habitat that will added to the ISS, and it will be transported into orbit aboard a Space X Falcon 9 rocket sometime next year.

The BEAM is one small step for Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow representative Michael Gold told Universe Today, but is also one giant leap for private sector space activities since the BEAM will be the first privately owned and developed module ever to be part of a crewed system in space.

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace announced the $17.8 million contract in 2013, and on October 2, 2014, Gold announced at the International Astronautical Congress that the launch would take place next year on a SpaceX resupply flight. Gold said BEAM provides an example of what the company, and private firms in general, can do in low-Earth orbit (LEO).

Upon arrival, the BEAM will be installed by the robotic Canadarm2 onto the Tranquility nodes aft docking port. Once its expanded, an ISS crew member will enter the module and become the first astronaut to step inside an expandable habitat system. The plan is to have the module remain in place for a few years to test and demonstrate the feasibility of the companys inflatable space habitat technology.

The BEAM, which weighs approximately 1,360 kg (3000 lbs), will travel aboard the unpressurized cargo hold of a Dragon capsule. Once it is successfully transferred to the station, ISS astronauts will activate the deployment sequence, and the module will expand out to its full size approx. 4 meters (13 feet) in length and 3 meters (10.5 feet) in diameter.

Bigelow currently has two stand-alone autonomous spacecraft in orbit, the Genesis I and the Genesis II both of which are collecting data about LEO conditions and how well the technology performs in practice in space. In turn, NASA will use BEAM to measure the radiation levels inside the module as compared to other areas of the ISS to determine how safe it is for habitation.

Through the flight of the Bigelow module on the International Space Station, weexpect tolearncritical technical performance data related to non-metallic structures in space, said Jason Crusan, director of Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, in an email to Universe Today.Data about things such as radiation, thermal, and overall operations of non-metallic structures in spacehas multiple benefits both to NASA and to the commercial sector.

Artist concept of the Bigelow space station. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.

The BEAM module will also allow for further data collection for the company, which is planning on launching its own space station, named Bigelow Aerospace Alpha Station, to be at least partially operational as early as next year. This station will be initially made up of two BA 330 expandable habitats, which are designed to function either as an independent space station or as modular components that can be connected to create a larger apparatus.

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NASA Inaugurates New Space Station Era as Earth Science Observation Platform with RapidScat Instrument

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ISS-RapidScat instrument, shown in this artists rendering, was launched to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX CRS-4 mission on Sept. 21, 2014 and attached at ESAs Columbus module. It will measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johnson Space Center.

NASA inaugurated a new era of research for the International Space Station (ISS) as an Earth observation platform following the successful installation and activation of the ISS-RapidScat science instrument on the outposts exterior at Europes Columbus module.

The ISS Rapid Scatterometer, or ISS-RapidScat, is NASAs first research payload aimed at conducting near global Earth science from the stations exterior and will be augmented with others in coming years.

RapidScat is designed to monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions, and hurricane monitoring.

The 1280 pound (580 kilogram) experimental instrument is already collecting its first science data following its recent power-on and activation at the station.

Its antenna began spinning and it started transmitting and receiving its first winds data on Oct.1, according to a NASA statement.

The first image from RapidScat was released by NASA on Oct. 6, shown below, and depicts preliminary measurements of global ocean near-surface wind speeds and directions.

Launched Sept. 21, 2014, to the International Space Station, NASAs newest Earth-observing mission, the International Space Station-RapidScat scatterometer to measure global ocean near-surface wind speeds and directions, has returned its first preliminary images. Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech

The $26 million remote sensing instrument uses radar pulses to observe the speed and direction of winds over the ocean for the improvement of weather forecasting.

Most satellite missions require weeks or even months to produce data of the quality that we seem to be getting from the first few days of RapidScat, said RapidScat Project Scientist Ernesto Rodriguez of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, which built and manages the mission.

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