Mixminion and Excito's B3

[HÃken Hveem <krbjhvee@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Excito B3 is a full-fledged home server that is quite small and
power efficient, yet it boasts a 1.2GHz ARM CPU, 512MB of RAM, up to 2TB
of data storage, two Gigabit Ethernet connections, optional integrated
802.11n WiFi, two USB 2.0 ports, and one eSATA port for additional
storage connectivity. As far as the power requirements go for this
ARM-based Linux server, the power consumption ranges between 8 and 13
Watts, or as low as 5 Watts if using the SSD-equipped model. The
dimensions on this server are just 11.5 x 4.5 x 18.5 cm. If there is
already not enough to get excited over with this Excito product, this
entire server is completely fan-less so it is absolutely silent. It has
a built in router function, and is in my opinion perfect as a stand
alone mixminion box. 


The specs is here:
http://www.excito.com/bubba/products/technical-specifications.html

It uses the ARM port of Debian 6.0 (codename "Squeeze") and pulls
updates from the Debian repository and excitos own repository.

I think that should be possible to implement mixmaster in the WEB GUI
on the the exito's B3 product. Its currently using Horde
(  http://www.horde.org/ )

B3's login page then should be forced to use secure http only.
B3 does not have this feature as default, but it can be hacked to
enforce https.


Why:

The Data Retention Directive, more formally "Directive 2006/24/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the
retention of data generated or processed in connection with the
provision of publicly available electronic communications services or
of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC" is
a controversial Directive issued by the European Union and relates to
Telecommunications data retention. According to the directive, member
states will have to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to
24 months stipulating a maximum time period. Under the directive the
police and security agencies will be able to request access to details
such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call and text
message sent or received. A request to access the information will be
able only with a court order.

The Data Retention Directive has sparked serious concerns from
physicians, journalists, privacy and human rights groups, unions, IT
security firms and legal experts.
It is currently planned implemented and voted for by major political
parties in Norway.

A similar situation exists in Sweden as The Titan traffic database. It
is a database established by the Swedish National Defence Radio
Establishment where call detail records (CDRs) of telephony and
internet traffic and transaction data (IPDRs) concerning international
telecommonications are stored. It is similar to the NSA Call Database
established by its American counterpart NSA and the database that would
be established according to the Interception Modernisation Programme by
its British counterpart GCHQ.

The existence of database became public 16 June 2008 after a leak to
Rapport (news programme),two days before the so-called FRA-law
was passed by the Swedish parliament which, inter alia, expanded the
mandate of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment and its
access to telecommunications.

If anyone think this is interesting please feel free to contact excito
at this mail adress:

tor@xxxxxxxxxx


I know that the folks at The Tor Project and
Excito is working together on a solution to "torrify" the B3 box, so Tor
will be built in and ready for use by default.
It can be configured from the web interface.

HÃken Hveem
Norway


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