Networking on tiny machines

Posted May 8, 2014 19:17 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Networking on tiny machines by smurf
Parent article: Networking on tiny machines

People need to stop considering private networks as secure. Unless here is a air-wall between it and the outside networks there are just too many holes in and out to automatically assume that nobody is able to get in and attack vulnerable systems or insecure protocols.

Networking on tiny machines

Posted May 11, 2014 0:28 UTC (Sun) by eean (subscriber, #50420) [Link] (1 responses)

Talk to Iranian nuclear researchers about air wall security. :p

Mostly while the Linux kernel shouldn't be insecure itself, its role in providing security is for sure not always needed.

Networking on tiny machines

Posted May 22, 2014 14:16 UTC (Thu) by quanstro (guest, #77996) [Link]

it might be a mistake to over generalize from a targeted attack on a high-value asset.