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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</div>
  24       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
  26 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
  27 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
  28 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
  29 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
  30 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
  31 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
  32 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
  33 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
  34
  35 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
  36 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
  37 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
  38 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
  39 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
  40
  41 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
  42 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
  43 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
  44 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
  45 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
  46 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
  47 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
  48 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
  49 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
  50 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
  51 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
  52 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
  53 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
  54 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
  55 missing in Debian).</p>
  56
  57 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
  58 scripts
  59 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
  60 and a administrative web interface
  61 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
  62 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
  63 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
  64 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
  65 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
  66 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
  67 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
  68 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
  69 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
  70 this is really working yet, see
  71 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
  72 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
  73 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
  74 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
  75 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
  76 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
  77 with lots of half baked features.</p>
  78
  79 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
  80 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
  81 at.</p>
  82
  83 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
  84
  85 <ol>
  86
  87 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
  88 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
  89 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
  90 to the Debian installer:<p>
  91 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
  92
  93 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
  94 install on.</li>
  95
  96 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
  97 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
  98
  99 </ol>
 100
 101 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 102
 103 <ol>
 104
 105 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 106 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 107 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 108 <pre>
 109 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 110 </pre></li>
 111 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 112 <pre>
 113 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 114    apt-key add -
 115 apt-get update
 116 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 117 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 118 </pre></li>
 119 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 120
 121 </ol>
 122
 123 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 124 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 125 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 126 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 127 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 128
 129 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 130 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 131 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 132 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 133
 134 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 135 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 136 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 137 irc.debian.org and the
 138 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 139 mailing list</a>.</p>
 140
 141 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 142 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 143 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 144 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 145 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 146 default password is 'secret'.</p>
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