FreedomBox + RaspberryPi = FreedomPi
I have been watching progress on FreedomBox ever since watching a video of Eben Moglen a few years ago.
Turns out that that they recently announced the availability of their 0.1 preview release. As part of this there is one component that is extremely useful for RaspberryPi users (funnily the co-founder of RasperryPi is also called Eblen by first name – go figure) out there concerned about increasing snooping of private information by governments and corporations for a variety of reasons.
Meet ‘freedombox-privoxy’
https://www.gitorious.org/freedombox-privoxy/freedombox-privoxy
This software combines the functionality of the Adblock Plus ad blocker, the Easy Privacy filtering list, and the (HTTPS Everywhere](https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) website redirection plugin into a single piece of software to run on your FreedomBox. Combining these different plugins into software for your FreedomBox means that you can use them with almost any browser or mobile device using a standard web proxy connection.
Best of all this has already been made available via the Raspbian repositories (http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/contrib/f/freedombox-privoxy/) so the install is extremely simple.
sudo apt-get install freedombox-privoxy
Note: make sure that you have the ‘contrib’ branch in the Raspbian repositories enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian wheezy main contrib non-free
Kudos to James Vasile for the technical work !
To get some more idea on the usage of privoxy you can check this article.
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