Another Tor-based Router Pulled from Kickstarter

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TorFi joins Anonabox in getting nixed

Kickstarter is fast turning into a graveyard of sorts for crowdfunding efforts involving routers that promise hassle-free internet anonymity by automatically routing all traffic through Tor. Close on the heels of its suspension of the Anonabox funding campaign, the popular crowdfunding site on Wednesday put the kibosh on funding for another such project.
Unlike the Anonabox project, which had already secured over half a million dollars in funding from nearly 9,000 backers when funding was suspended on October 17, TorFi could only manage monetary pledges worth a paltry $951 before being pulled from the site. Although Kickstarter has refused to comment on what prompted it to take such a drastic action, it is believed that the project may have fallen foul of a Kickstarter rule that clearly asks creators to not present someone else’s work as their own, unless they wish to have their project suspended. This belief stems from the fact that TorFi’s creators, Jesse Enjaian and David Xu, weren’t proposing to produce an entirely new product, but merely tweaking an off-the-shelf TP-Link router with a customized version of OpenWRT in order to turn it into a device capable of delivering “simple, plug-and-play, secure access point to the Internet.”
However, if you are interested in such a product not all is lost. As it turns out, there is no dearth of alternatives.
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