-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Ciao a tutti,
La prospettiva che i provider possano (a quando l'obbligo?) aggiornarmi _a casa mia_ il software dei miei apparecchi nella realtà post Snowden è a dir poco inquietante. "Ti abbiamo chiuso la porta 22 perché te non lo sai ma è usata dai terroristi pedofili per diffondere spam e virus". Saverio Proto <[email protected]> ha scritto: >perche' inquietante ? a me sembrano buone notizie. Sembra che >l'industria stia pensando di usare OpenWrt come piattaforma per i >router residenziali. > >puoi spiegare meglio il tuo commento ? > >Saverio > >Il 28 gennaio 2014 22:42, Leandro Noferini <[email protected]> >ha scritto: >> Ciao a tutti, >> >> si parla di openwrt in un'ottica decisamente inquietante. >> >> >> >> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ---------- >> From: Sean Alexandre <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:35:17 -0500 >> Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum >> From: Brian Reed >> https://www.isc.org/blogs/author/breid/ >> >> ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum >> https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-wraps-up-open-home-gateway-forum/ >> >> Following a successful public demonstration at the 88th Internet >Engineering >> Task Force (IETF) meeting November 2013, ISC’s Open Home Gateway >Forum team has >> submitted its code for package signing and validation to the OpenWrt >project. >> ISC is now disbanding the Open Home Gateway Forum since this code has >been >> completed. >> >> Comcast and ISC created the Open Home Gateway Forum (OHGF) to address >problems >> in managing large numbers of home gateway devices. The Open Home >Gateway Forum >> (OHGF) team created and demonstrated enhancements to OpenWrt that >enabled >> a robust process for remote configuration and software upgrade. This >could >> allow an ISP to securely update home gateway devices, and might be >leveraged >> more broadly by OpenWrt to provide automatic software updates. This >is >> important since so much customer premise equipment never receives a >software >> update, creating significant future security vulnerabilities. This >new feature >> can mitigate the risk of software never being updated, which has >recently been >> in the news in an article by Bruce Schneier and in a malware attack >affecting >> Internet devices. >> >> The remote configuration and update process uses cryptographic >signatures and >> checksum verification to ensure the integrity of the update source as >well as >> the validity of the software downloaded. These extra security >measures protect >> the home gateway from downloading or installing software delivered by >or >> tampered with by any unauthorized party. >> >> As the largest cable Internet Provider in North America, Comcast has >a vested >> interest in solving this problem. One way they have chosen to >address it by >> funding the development of a transparent open source solution. >> >> OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution that runs on >over 80 >> different manufacturer’s embedded systems. OpenWrt is an open source >project, >> meaning that the source code is freely available, and they welcome >> contributions from contributors anywhere in the world. Many of the >millions of >> home gateways connected to the Internet run software based on >OpenWrt. >> Improvements made in OpenWrt can have a wide-ranging impact. >> >> “We are part of a community working together to address a global >Internet >> problem,” stated Gregers Petersen, OpenWrt Relationship Manager. >“We welcome >> the support of, and collaboration with, ISC and Comcast. The open >source >> model is once again proving to be the best way to tackle the really >tough >> technical problems that affect us all.” >> >> “OpenWrt is a vibrant open source project and their software is used >by many of >> our Xfinity Internet customers as well as countless other Internet >users,” said >> Jason Livingood, Vice President of Internet & Communications >Engineering at >> Comcast. “We are happy that ISC was able to develop a unique way of >secure >> remote configuration and update, since regular and automatic software >updates >> are a critical part of ensuring the ongoing security of >Internet-connected >> consumer devices.” >> >> After working with the OHGF team, OpenWrt is continuing to add >support for >> detecting and recovering from interrupted installs and is working on >a way to >> safely do home gateway kernel upgrades. For more information about >OpenWrt, or >> to contribute or download the software distribution, see >> http://www.openwrt.org. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedombox-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >_______________________________________________ >Wireless mailing list >[email protected] >http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless - -- leandro Non sono più solitario... del primo ragno in una casa nuova -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: APG v1.0.9 iQFJBAEBCAAzBQJS6SQkLBxMZWFuZHJvIE5vZmVyaW5pIDxsbm9mZXJpbkBjeWJl cnZhbGxleS5vcmc+AAoJENpcFVLnpNbCWH8H/RNRVdQyLxnWi5j/zwoLZFP3st+J yLcuXDdBJrN0PjpmWTThNoSDbZrJ7Od1R14KWYf5wQli6yyzWDBHYhhxVBxkDoxb SSWxMZv13RnnWrf9B1kcW+h4Prfs5lABny5gQBUPlUGyiBW6xsA/Hof1f7eJA7/d M5OlqIYTbF9YJx9IdC3V47i9bYhtls3AGcBOVv2LerOwJkmFBcGU58zOvFdE318s aq29NgyJdmCmF0fj5JRnTydxy/x9F5DI2FWB/DfThgStNUTVpbhP4gIyBlXaK+VE uEBLKo92S537910KMPwe2AHTc/ZIzMwZ/KigV85sGfIcmWl7XKJ3/5o6V78= =u4An -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
