Whatever happened to Anonym.OS?
Roll your mind back to the beginning of 2006 and you might remember Anonym.OS the idea of which was that you could pop a CD into your coffee cup holder, reboot and have nice (relatively) secure and anonymous browsing via TOR in a nice locked down BSD session. My mind is a little hazy on how it performed in detail, but I remember that in general it worked, which is more than can be said for a lot of security tool releases…
It is somewhat sad to see that the project doesn’t seem to have been maintained. Should a notification be posted to the sourceforge, freshmeat etc pages to say that the versions of software included have security issues? I’m not really qualified to say but I would generally expect something coming up for 2 years of age to have some security issues a user would wish to be aware of.
The developers of the disk kaos did publish a pdf on making a BSD live cd and a document on hardening an OS for secure internet activity, but I’d be interested in knowing if the reason the project hasn’t had further releases is simply time constraints or something more fundamental about the idea itself.
If anyone knows the status of the projects, or a worthy alternative, do drop a comment into the box below…
Rowan :: Dec.04.2007 :: Internet Anonymity :: 1 Comment »
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