On 5/1/23 16:42, Dave Taht wrote:
How a ragtag bunch of unincorporated (mostly?) peacenik hippie types
can co-exist with devices being built by militaries out of this stuff
I have few ideas. I prefer to shrink the world, and produce stable,
secure, software, for everyone that wants it, but I look at the
contentious places where it also goes (like space, or spacex) and
wonder how it will all end up, and who will maintain it, improve it,
or attempt to subvert it.
Yes, and on a parallel note about security (not "Security" aka Defense),
OpenWrt is good, but not excellent. This has been a long term interest
of mine, largely due to career need rather than enthusiasm per se - the
product I'm working on now has been through multiple security reviews - much
of it without question is theater.
See a discussion I started on this some months ago - there's been a bit
of a historic lack of appetite for this topic, partly because some of
the theater is certainly high-class nonsense, and partly because of lack of
resources - OpenWrt doesn't really have a dedicated security effort (if I missed
something in recent months than I apologize), and some of the suggestions
I've made have gone into the ether.
Still, I think there's a growing recognition of its use - certainly
many home routers and no little number of special-user routers run it
as well as commercial applications and of course the original topic
I raised. OpenWrt now has vastly more clout in the world than superficial
visibility would suggest.
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