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Anonabox, the $50 portable anonymising connection router or master scam?
But apparently such devices were already available from Chinese manufacturers and that too, even cheaper.
As expected, Kickstarter had freezed the Anonabox funding for scamming the investors and backers with false claims.
At one point on on Wednesday, the calls for the project to be cancelled got louder and shriller.
Some backers and original pledgers also asked Kickstarter to cancel their pledges.
Other users soon picked up faults in Anonaboxs software.
The Redditors were the prominent ones in finding out about the scam.
A Reddit user,htilonom, created a thread outlining the scam to the users.
The entire thread is given below :
UPDATE!
Hello,
This is a message from Kickstarters Trust & Safety team.
A review of the project uncovered evidence that it broke Kickstarters rules.
No further action is required on your part.
We take the integrity of the Kickstarter system very seriously.
As a policy, we do not offer comment on project suspensions beyond what is stated in this message.
Regards, Kickstarter Trust & Safety
WOW, I AM BEYOND WORDS.
HUGE THANK YOU TO KICKSTARTER!
You guys prevented a disaster!
We have proved that Anonabox guy and his twitter friends have intentionally deceived the public.
The Anonabox guy (and his helpers) are amateurs.
Bottom line is, even if they deliver their rig, it cannot be trusted.
Of course, thats assuming Kickstarter doesnt cancel their project for breaking their TOS.
EDIT:
People, move on from the Arab Spring bullshit.
It doesnt matter if thats how they got their idea or not.
On my other thread on/r/privacyweve proven that Anonabox RIPPED OF website text and ideas from UnJailPi.
Now yo stop the AS circlejerk, its not helping anyone.
While I was battling with trolls I missed a update from @stevelord who got anonabox firmware.
Were talking about a guy who spent DAYS attacking people who wanted to share their doubts.
Is this the end of Anonabox?
I had thought this would be like push-starting a car, Germar says.
Instead, its been like being handcuffed to a rocket.
If it was aimed for developers, why was the story about Arab Spring mentioned (made up)?
Why is their kickstarter page saying they want to build ant-censorship box (?!)
and ship it to the people?
The people that are journalists, protesters and other non-tech people… clearly NOT BETA TESTERS AND DEVELOPERS.
Both the hardware and the software issues forced Kickstarter to freeze the funding.
source: www.techworm.net
