[Ilugc] Modem updates or Hardening Guidelines
- From: mehul.n.ved@xxxxxxxxx (Mehul Ved)
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:40:47 +0530
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan
<bala150985 at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I agree. ?My concern was I was expecting some thing at least one
firmware for a quarter. ?This is because I use to get a paper along with my
ISP bill to have my router switched off while I am not using it as the
Modem is just like a mini PC which attacker can take over and start up
something which might end up on unsuspecting owners of the modem.
That would depend on how many services you are exposing to the outside
world. Ideally nothing to very little.
I have to accept I did not understand the point above. ?Are you trying to
tell that the embedded system are much more secure than the Distros which
we are using ?
Not more secure, they are tightly integrated as hardware and software
and thus the development effort required to provide upgrades is
considerably more. The software is required to be much more optimised
due to hardware constraints and as thus a lot of pieces are tightly
tied together. It's unusual to see small updates to individual
software as in desktop distros.
Most of those distros won't even have a proper package manager or one
that is less functional. That would make the process even harder.
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