As you may remember we covered open source Tor based anonymizing router earlier on here. Apparently last week, while it was nearing $600,000 in funding Anonabox has been hit by a backlash according to claims that the team didn’t built a “custom” board and case for their miniature router but only bought an off-the-shelf case and did some tweaks.
Apparently many backers pulled their pledge to the project has now been halted by kickstarter.
This thing sounds really weird: maybe someone was concerned by Anonabox being actually produced?
via Tor Hardware Router anonabox Suspended on Kickstarter Following Major Backlash | Crowdfund Insider.
It was because the kickstarter was full of lies. See the good break down here: http://hackaday.com/2014/10/17/anonabox-how-to-fail-horribly-at-kickstarter/
No government conspiracy here.