[Cryptography] "Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux"

[Sid Spry]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, at 5:52 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2020-07-09 15:14:15 -0700 (-0700), Henry Baker wrote:
> [...]
> > * Raspberry Pi 4 acting as NAT/router/DoH DNS/... connected via Ethernet
> [...]
> > Yes, I know, Raspberry Pi's have some closed HW & blobs,
> [...]
> 
> Or spend a little more and get an open hardware SBC which doesn't (I
> use the PCEngines APU1D4 which has open source BIOS/firmware and
> drivers for all its hardware are mainline in not only Linux kernels
> but also *BSDs, I happily run latest OpenBSD on mine).
> 

Your PCEngine is "open source" in the same exact way the RPi is. Compare
and contrast coreboot with libreboot. A bunch of immutable static config is
pushed to your hardware that you can't change.

(I don't know the specifics of that part, but keep in mind libreboot had to
abandon all devices post 2013.)