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NSLU2 replacement?
From: jackadaniel at gmail.com (Jack Daniel)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:38:42 -0400
Oh, my- two threads are colliding... Remember that Untangle re-router thing I mentioned in the SOHO router thread (and said to avoid)? They have a virtual image of their "UTM" (in quotes because a UTM w/o a firewall is not a UTM)- it runs in a VM on a workstation, supposedly works fine from a USB drive. Their "network magic" is arp cache poisoning the LAN to redirect all traffic through the workstation so they can do web or whatever filtering on a non-perimeter system. Using that as a starting point, someone clever (and/or patient) enough might be able to build a pretty nefarious little system. It is built on Linux and other Open Source components, so they want us to hack it, right? Untangle.com Jack 2009/3/8 Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny at gmail.com>:
Hi all, Here's a thought, instead of investing in hardware how about a drop-vm? The ideas would be along the lines of a U3 USB stick or optical medium which auto-installs a visualization platform and VM image, boots it up and maybe even makes to persistent following reboots of the host. The stick-drop-in-the-parking lot modality would work and rather than trojanising a PC (with the risk of detection by AV software) you get a small, fully-operational virtual host on the target network. I know this is a different strategy and obviously involves compromising a target PC but it appeals to the frugal side of my nature. There's no cross-compiling, no hardware costs (other than the payload medium) and the resulting platform would probably have more resource and better performance than most embedded devices. Know ye of such a project? Jim
Current thread:
- NSLU2 replacement?, (continued)
- NSLU2 replacement? Robin Wood (Mar 05)
- NSLU2 replacement? Paul Asadoorian (Mar 05)
- NSLU2 replacement? MV (Mar 08)
- NSLU2 replacement? Adrian Crenshaw (Mar 05)
- NSLU2 replacement? Jim Halfpenny (Mar 06)
- NSLU2 replacement? John Fitzpatrick (Mar 06)
- NSLU2 replacement? Jim Halfpenny (Mar 06)
- NSLU2 replacement? Tim Mugherini (Mar 06)
- NSLU2 replacement? MV (Mar 08)
- NSLU2 replacement? Jim Halfpenny (Mar 08)
- NSLU2 replacement? Jack Daniel (Mar 08)
- NSLU2 replacement? Robin Wood (Mar 09)
- NSLU2 replacement? Robin Wood (Mar 05)