On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 01:33:54PM +1000, Andrew Pam wrote: > On 04/07/18 13:23, Jookia wrote: > > I haven't got the NBN yet, but we currently have a Telstra technicolor > > modem. > > What interests me about it is that it does firmware updating automatically > > and I can't find any firmware for it online. Short of cracking it open and > > reading flash chips or doing traffic snooping, there's not much I can do to > > tell > > it's not being malicious. > > I also have a Technicolor modem on Internode NBN, and I always put my modem > into bridged mode and use a FOSS server (typically Linux or BSD) as the > actual router. I'm currently using an old Dell "small business server" that > I got for free, but even a Raspberry Pi would work as a single-armed > router. That probably won't protect you against actively malicious > firmware, but it should mitigate against a lot of vulnerabilities because > it's much harder to externally contact a router in bridged mode. > > Cheers, > Andrew
Yeah, I've done that before, so I might do it again eventually. I've started to consider to just run a local VPN for all my machines to have things encrypted at the wire level, so no network spying can happen. _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au https://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
