Security researcher creates an online anonymity device, ProxyHam which can connect anonymously to a Wi-Fi located 2.5 miles awayProxyHam allows its users to connect to a far-away public Wi-Fi network putting them miles away from their IP address and thus helping them with an additional layer of anonymity.
Benjamin Caudill, a security researcher, however has created an online anonymity device which can help users to add an extra layer of obfuscation to the online user’s location. This device could be of great help in protecting the anonymity of whistle blowers, dissidents, journalists and the criminals. Caudill’s innovative device is known as ProxyHam, also known as “hardware proxy” helps user to connect to a far off public Wi-Fi network through an unidentifiable low frequency radio channel. This entire setup makes it difficult for the government authorities and the snoopers to determine the actual location and real identity of the Internet traffic. Thus even if snoopers manage to hunt the users through multiple layers of proxy connections and reach their IP address it will not reveal the real identity of the user. Lets check what is this novel device made up of: ProxyHam basically is an open source device which comprises of a Raspberry Pi computer attached to a Wi-Fi card which is further connected to three antennae. One of the antenna connects the device to a Wi-Fi network which is placed at a public place and the dual antennae is connected to a radio connection which transmits the Wi-Fi signals at a frequency of 900 MHz.
