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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21     <h3>Entries tagged "freedombox".</h3>
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  25         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html">Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</a>
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  28         10th September 2013
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  31         <p>I was introduced to the
  32 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
  33 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
  34 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
  35 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
  36 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
  37 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
  38 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
  39 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
  40
  41 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
  42 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
  43 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
  44 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
  45 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
  46
  47 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
  48 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
  49 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
  50 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
  51 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
  52 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
  53 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
  54 the current Freedombox setup, I had to come up with a way to install
  55 it on some hardware I do got access to.  I have rewritten the
  56 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
  57 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
  58 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
  59 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
  60 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
  61 missing in Debian).</p>
  62
  63 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
  64 scripts
  65 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
  66 and a administrative web interface
  67 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
  68 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
  69 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
  70 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
  71 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
  72 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
  73 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
  74 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
  75 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
  76 this is really working yet, see
  77 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
  78 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
  79 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
  80 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
  81 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
  82 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
  83 with lots of half baked features.</p>
  84
  85 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
  86 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
  87 at.</p>
  88
  89 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
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  93 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
  94 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
  95 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
  96 to the Debian installer:<p>
  97 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
  98
  99 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 100 install on.</li>
 101
 102 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 103 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
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 107 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 108
 109 <ol>
 110
 111 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 112 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 113 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 114 <pre>
 115 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 116 </pre></li>
 117 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 118 <pre>
 119 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 120    apt-key add -
 121 apt-get update
 122 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 123 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 124 </pre></li>
 125 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 126
 127 </ol>
 128
 129 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 130 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 131 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 132 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 133 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 134
 135 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 136 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 137 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 138 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 139
 140 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 141 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 142 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 143 irc.debian.org and the
 144 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 145 mailing list</a>.</p>
 146
 147 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 148 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 149 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 150 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 151 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 152 default password is 'secret'.</p>
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