[Ilugc] Modem updates or Hardening Guidelines
- From: bala150985@xxxxxxxxx (Balasubramaniam Natarajan)
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:43:31 +0530
1. Distros like Ubuntu run off testing branch, if you'd use something
like Debian stable you'd have lesser updates.
2. A lot of updates you see are related to desktop software, which are
mostly feature updates or small fixes rather than security fixes. The
security fixes you receive are relatively lesser.
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.
3. My little experience with embedded systems, which your routers
would fall under, are much more tightly bound together than desktop
distros so releasing updates for it is a relatively difficult task.
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 ?
4. The companies producing these products are more of a hardware
company than software. They have little to no incentive to keep
providing regular software upgrades. They'd rather focus on quickly
releasing new hardware in the market.
:-(
If you combine all the 4 above reasons you'd see why it's uncommon to
see regular software updates to your modems/routers.
Think about how often do even smartphones receive security updates?
Mostly what you'd see are feature upgrades.
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Mehul Ved
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