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Pogoplug makes internet data sharing easyPogoplug makes internet data sharing easyPosted Dec 10, 2009 13:44 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)Parent article: Pogoplug makes internet data sharing easy
If the firewall of a company lets UDP traffic in and out from any computer, then I guess this device would be the least of their concern...
On the other hand if the code on the device is written in C and if there is a buffer overflow or some other bug in there, then it becomes a great way to open up home networks to malicious attackers.
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Pogoplug makes internet data sharing easy Posted Dec 21, 2009 12:06 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
Many (mostly small) companies deploy the simple allow-everything-outbound
rule. AFAIK the pogoplug will initiate the "connection", and therefore work happily with these setups.
Of course this is also true for most P2P and assorted malware, with the
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