On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I agree. My concern was I was expecting some thing at least one > firmware for a quarter. This is because I use to get a paper along with my > ISP bill to have my router switched off while I am not using it as the > Modem is just like a mini PC which attacker can take over and start up > something which might end up on unsuspecting owners of the modem.
That would depend on how many services you are exposing to the outside world. Ideally nothing to very little. > I have to accept I did not understand the point above. Are you trying to > tell that the embedded system are much more secure than the Distros which > we are using ? Not more secure, they are tightly integrated as hardware and software and thus the development effort required to provide upgrades is considerably more. The software is required to be much more optimised due to hardware constraints and as thus a lot of pieces are tightly tied together. It's unusual to see small updates to individual software as in desktop distros. Most of those distros won't even have a proper package manager or one that is less functional. That would make the process even harder. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
