Security is not just for PCs

re: Security is not just for PCs

alexandroid — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:40:45 GMT

I wonder what those pingbacks from slowfive and yamwool mean... Looks like those are the fake automatically generated blogs which just post references to other blog articles (thousands per months) and show google ads.

Is this a new way to spam comments using trackbacks?

re: Security is not just for PCs

Alun Jones — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:23:28 GMT

I don't think we'll be seeing too many operating system level attacks on embedded firmware running Linux, while the applications themselves frequently have gaping holes.

But yes, one of my fears when I first got a TiVo was that it would become the one box in my house that I couldn't patch or scan reliably. "Runs Linux", said the ad. Not reassuring, because to me that means "is a PC, that you don't know how to administer, and that the manufacturer doesn't want you to configure or patch yourself."

re: Security is not just for PCs

Jan Klier — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:51:04 GMT

I wonder how much the adoption of Linux as embedded OS actually has inadvertently rendered security through obscurity less practical? When those devices used the many lesser known embedded OSes much less of potential vulnerabilities and attack points was known.