Hacker News brought an interesting link today: http://blog.andrewcantino.com/post/3565673304/why-plug-computers-are-a-security-nightmare
The gist is that if blackhat hackers can penetrate your environment and stealthily install some plug computers - loaded with suitable software - those bugs would be hard not notice, could sniff your wireless traffic (or, if connected, your network), and can stealthily move that information back towards the blackhat mothership. Which is nothing new. People have known about that kind of thing of years. Trends in plug computing make the threat cheaper to execute and easier to conceal - that's the main thing. After reading that I was thinking what this meant to Freedombox. I came up with two items: 1. The network hardening and stealth communications ambitions of FreedomBox might *also* be a boon to blackhat applications. That might give some people and organizations incentive to interfere with or corrupt those aspects of FreedomBox development. 2. If it is born out that such features are an important new security threat, presumably there will be investment in R&D to create and sell counter-measures to FreedomBox-style mesh networking, tunneling, etc. To be clear: I don't see anything that "needs to be done" in response to these speculated problems other than, perhaps, to keep them in the back of our minds. -t _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
