On February 1, 2014 at 2:42 AM Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > Is running applications on your router really such a good idea? > > http://gigaom.com/2014/01/31/in-a-distributed-world-cache-is-king-why-routers-are-becoming-the-new-server/ > [...] > Cisco's IOx architecture will be a Linux-based operating system that > will be embedded in forthcoming industrial routers. > > And unlike its previous box software, Cisco says it plans to open the > IOx architecture up for others to run their own applications on
A router should be a router. Allowing applications to run on it invites serious security risks. I want to go in the other direction. I think there is already stuff I would like to disable by deleting it. It is a truism that an attacker cannot attack a program/feature which isn't installed on the victim. peabo _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
