Posted by
timothy
on from the blender-seems-the-obvious-choice dept.
jaromil writes "TorTV is an early effort to embed Tor in household computing: run it on your TV at home. So far only WDTV installed with the homebrew WDLXTV firmware is supported. What other platforms do you think are viable for it?"
OK, let's get the obvious question out of the way: Why would I want to run Tor on my TV? Honestly, I don't get why. I don't see anywhere on the site that explains why it would be a good thing for me to run my TV on the Tor network.
Re:Huh?
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Anonymous Coward
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Well, there is the, "Because I can" factor. But it also could provide some interesting safety measures when using a built-in browser on some televisions. Yes, there are televisions with a web browser. Why? Because some people like the idea.
Re:Huh?
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Anonymous Coward
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have you ever used tor ? its slower than a hayes 14.4k modem over a crappy phone line. and thats for web browsing, not media.
No, my router routes. The closest thing to a service that it provides is NAT. I don't worry about it getting buried in connections because I bought a router (Cisco 881 at a surplus yard) that would stand up to the abuse I throw at it.
What's All This About, Then?
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Karl+Cocknozzle
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Is the goal to flood the Tor network with so much traffic that the feds might not be able to catch your bittorrent downloads?
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OK, let's get the obvious question out of the way: Why would I want to run Tor on my TV? Honestly, I don't get why. I don't see anywhere on the site that explains why it would be a good thing for me to run my TV on the Tor network.
Is the goal to flood the Tor network with so much traffic that the feds might not be able to catch your bittorrent downloads?
Who did what now?