[ale] Ouch

[Boris Borisov]

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/

On Wednesday, December 23, 2015, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use a full pc with a current distro patched daily for a router. Wireless
> gear is set in dumb mode, i.e. pass it all to the router box. I still run a
> Linux distro on the wireless gear but that is as vanilla as possible.
> On Dec 23, 2015 4:58 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','djpfulio at jdpfu.com');>> wrote:
>
>> The point was having access to current patches for 2+ yr old hardware.
>> The only
>> way I know to get that is to build the router OS myself or use a generic
>> x86
>> hardware router OS that is maintained by others (like pfSense/opensense).
>> There
>> are certainly a few Linux-based x86 router distros, just cannot recall
>> their
>> names now.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/22/2015 08:47 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:
>> > Most Netgear routers and switches already run Linux.
>> >
>> > Ray Knight
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Dec 18, 2015, at 7:03 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','djpfulio at jdpfu.com');>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 12/18/2015 06:20 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> >>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/index.html
>> >>
>> >> Not realizing the issue for 6 years? Srsly?
>> >>
>> >> So we can't trust Juniper, Cisco, Netgear, TL-link, ... there are only
>> a few
>> >> left.  Looks like building our own network routers and switches with
>> BSD or
>> >> Linux will be the only way going forward.
>> >>
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