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by Cybershambles 4263 days ago
Let's count the ways this could have been done better. For starters, Let's not spend most of the time lying to people (apart from the straight up amaturish parts of their project), second, start the project by including the costs of security based milestones in the price of admission.

This results in higher costs because people are being altruistic... so let's make the cost $80 starters... $40 for Hardware (There are better mini routers out there for the price). $10 for Shipping. $10 for Software. $10 for Security Audit. $10 for TOR donation, because you're exploiting them for profit (higher pledges to TOR = TOR merch).

The more you sell, the better bulk hardware (increases in RAM/decreases in cost) order you can manage... but for 10,000~ units you'll need somebody with feet on the ground in China to deal with the local team. plus QA and taxes and lawyers and.. ARGGHHHHH

plus, should have an open and detailed platform with a threat model and design documentation before you even start.

Which OS/disto?, which packages/why these packages?, GCsecurity? firewall? administration UX? Update path? Stretch goals?! Feature set? Less is more in this kind of thing...