Good News For Spies and Dictators: ‘FreedomBox’ Is in Danger of an Early Death:
"It’s a developers’ nightmare word: vaporware – a term for hyped new software
that’s never delivered. FreedomBox, an ambitious free-software project designed
to embed privacy and security into netizens’ routers, seems on the verge of
earning that label, risking becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of privacy-
enhancing software.
Which would be a sad fate for a project that aimed at freeing the world from the
shackles of centralized communication services like Facebook, Gmail and AIM.
The FreedomBox is basically a router shot through with free-software. Once
plugged into your home network, it will “protect your security, your privacy and
your anonymity while you use the internet,” said James Vasile, the executive
director of the FreedomBox Foundation, the nonprofit which was formed to
develop the technology using more than $85,000 raised on Kickstarter."
See:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/freedombox/