Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts?
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> On 2014-07-24 12:04, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: >> So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router >> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router >> https://openwireless.org/ >> It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software >> (which works pretty well in my own experience). >> What will possibly be interesting in this forum is that it's explicitly >> targeting having open guest wireless access (unlike the stuff being pushed >> by some ISPs, where you can roam but only to other customers of the same >> ISP). >> !DSPAM:53d13dc965333732154236! > > The Free Network Foundation (which I co founded and am CTO of) has been > helping several groups in the USA do this for ~1 year now. EFF is simply > rebranding/respinning community networking, but they are pretty new to the > USA Free Networks party overall. They just have a bigger budget/brand > recognition (though FreedomTower has become a pretty resilient brand based on > the e-mails we get on a daily basis). Also I'm not sure of the level of > support/hand holding/documentation etc EFF will provide for folks wanting to > build a network off this setup (I'm guessing not much). Also most incumbent > carriers prevent sharing (where FNF > supported/assisted/collaborative/affiliated US based efforts back haul (over > high capacity wifi or VPN over incumbent circuits) to wholesale colocation > facilities POP and do things like monitor abuse@ contacts etc. (Ya know, > actually responsibly run an ISP). > > I'd rather of seen them partner with FNF, (or actually much more preferable > would be upstream wrt projects like QMP) and not spin YET ANOTHER FIRMWARE. > > I'm glad they picked CeroWRT though. >
