Description TerrBox XR3
This was our April Fool's joke
Civil rights are on the retreat: Politicians keep coming up with new reasons why they need to extend surveillance and restrict privacy. In Germany, the latest coup consists of the Bundestrojaner - a state-programmed Trojan that is supposed to be installed on as many computers as possible to ensure constant surveillance. Therefore, it is necessary to resist the sprawling control. Demonstrations and letters to Bundestag members are one option, but whether they are enough to improve the situation is questionable. This is where the TerrBox comes into play:
The TerrBox contains a complete Linux PC that is programmed to behave like a terrorist's computer. This means it sends emails with terror-suspicious content (such as inquiries about stays abroad in Arab countries) at random intervals to addresses in Pakistan, Iran, and other Arab countries. The emails are written in poor English or perfect Arabic, and there are more than 1000 different templates. The computer also independently surfs the web on Islamic sites from time to time. Furthermore, the hard drive contains some bomb-making instructions available on the internet, calendar entries with important Islamic holidays, the complete Quran, and some theological treatises. In short: It creates the perfect impression that it is the computer of a harmless Arab student top terrorist. During the initial installation, a selection is made randomly from the available settings and data, so that no box is the same as another.
But what does the TerrBox actually bring? It's actually quite simple: If enough people buy the TerrBox and connect it to their local network, the state's all-encompassing surveillance will soon become too expensive, as far too many employees will be needed to sift through everything. After a short time, the state will then realize that the surveillance is useless and will therefore stop it. At the beginning, the use of the TerrBox may provoke one or two house searches, and we cannot guarantee that one or two users will not end up in Guantanamo. But in every political struggle, sacrifices have to be made.
Here are the data of the built-in computer: AMD LirpaXL 1.5 GHz, 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 40GB HDD. A modified Debian is used as the distribution, which intentionally runs with a Kernel 2.4.2 that has no security updates. The connection to the network is made via Ethernet, and the computer automatically retrieves the necessary settings from a running DHCP server.
