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The Internet Appliance
Re-decentralising Digital Infrastructure
Context
Privacy on the internet is in a bad shape. While targeted surveillance is used against human rights defenders and other agents of social change, technical developments greatly reduced cost of surveillance per user, making broad and always-on dragnet surveillance efficient. There is a continuous violation to the rights of billions of users to privacy and freedom of expression on the internet.
Technical attempts suggested to solve this problem share two solutions: encryption and decentralisation. However, most projects did not scale to satisfaction for being either too complex for the average user to handle technically, or aiming too high immediately.
Aim and Objectives
The project aims at creating a process that allows for widespread adoption of an open hardware platform that gradually grows to become a decentralised infrastructure providing several internet services while maintaining the privacy of internet users at large.
Towards this long-term aim, the project will
Appliance units
Basic
Modems
Storage
Networking
Power/Uninterrupted power supply
Peripherals and Bluetooth
Speaker
Processing: for server and for desktop
Sound processing and interfacing
Video processing
Software defined radio