Help me build out a cheap SECURE darknet box

So here's the deal... I've got a brand new never-used raspberry pi sitting around doing nothing and was wondering what I could do with it other than just let it sit around and collect dust. My thought for it was to create a fully functional and secure DNM computer complete with an installation of Whonix and the latest versions Electrum and PGP ready to go. I'd like to include a MAC address changer as well but need advice as to where to find a good one. Basically I want this thing to be plug-and-play so that all a person has to do is boot into it and know it/they are secure. Help me flesh this out. What am I missing in the way of security essentials, yada, yada, yada... ? Any ideas are welcome. This is an open-ended project and may turn into something available for sale at some point.


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[24 Points] FedoraWearingAlien:

for sale at some point

you can't really do that, you're asking us for help and then selling on our ideas/help.

anyways, yeah i can write a bash script to install all the shit you need if you want, it's not hard, the whonix thing is a little harder because it requires two instances unless you mean running the rpi as the gateway but then you'd need another PC, anyways, if the project stays free and open i'm happy to help.

Software:

none of this is hard to make honestly

#!/usr/bin/env bash

apt-get install -y tor i2p electrum-wallet openpgp firefox proxychains irssi

sudo wget http://www.2600.com/code/252/mac-address-changer/mac-address-changer.sh.txt -O /usr/bin/MAC

sudo chmod 0777 /usr/bin/MAC # yes im a retard thanks sharpshooter <3

you might want to include some iptables fuckery to DROP all traffic except tor. something like this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TorDedicatedUser


[5 Points] al_eberia:

Don't build a darknet OS on the Pi, turn it into a PORTAL device and use it with a cheap full disk encrypted laptop for your darknet activites.


[2 Points] None:

Here let me do all the work for you so you can profit off of it...


[3 Points] entactoBob:

Hey hey, just wanna point out → there's nothing wrong with putting together reliable, "plug-&-play" DNM machines to sell on the open market.

Regarding OP's comment:

"…[this] may turn into something available for sale at some point."

  1. Since when is it wrong to sell physical goods? Especially if someone applied knowledge, time, effort, & service to said goods. That attaches value to a setup you could put together yourself, but it's far less convenient.
    And anyways, it would still be gratis, as it should be.
  2. Despite his username, OP didn't seem like some shitbag out to bamboozle people. If he is, he took one hell of a strange gambit with that post. Most likely, he's just someone with curiosity and a desire to sell off electronics he no longer needs.
  3. But even if he does hope to start a line of products geared at the DNM, why is the presumption that he's doing something wrong? Supply & demand here. And yeah, putting that together in a palatable way that's user-friendly—even aesthetically pleasing you might say—adds incredible value to something like that.
  4. There's nothing wrong with having capitalist sensibilities. Capitalism can be engaged in while still holding morals and having an ethical approach. Oh, and it can be discussed for its virtues without quoting Ayn Rand, ad nauseum.

I believe you cannot steal a series of zeros & ones, especially when they're as easily replicated as they are. By this I mean media, software, data. I don't wanna go down the rabbit hole of explaining how that philosophy does & doesn't line up with so-called "data theft", so I'll sum it up as: physical things you can steal—that's property & typically has monetary value. Services can be "stolen" through non-payment as well, but my point here is: data—for instance mp3s–are all just patterns of 0s & 1s once the high-level, abstracted code is broken down to binary.

»»» TLDR — OP, it's what the market will bear. If you see an opportunity, go for it. Good luck. And don't feel badly about asking the community questions.

"Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes"
— Bernard of Salisbury

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
— Isaac Newton


[0 Points] g2n:

Put tails on an SD card. Boot on pi. Easy?