security by obscurity? you know, with a JTAG adapter and a bit of knowledge, one can read the onboard flash from those plugs too. so, probably a better approach is to have a system which doesn't expose your data when the disk is compromised. The simplest example is SSH with public key authentication and authentication forwarding (-A flag).
>________________________________ > From: Silvan Gebhardt <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:28 PM >Subject: Re: [swinog] hosting for 1 powersupply with lan port > > >Hello Stanislav and List > > >There are two reasons why I want this plug PC: > > >1) security through obscurity. if someone by whatever means take this thing apart - an alix is very easy to dump the content off it. a VPS is even worse. > >2) such a Plug PC has at least double the ram an alix has, the moment you want to also run mutt on it it starts to become a bit relevant, with a few dozend openvpn client connections as well.... I do run a lot of Alixes globally already, I do know the whole box quite good. > >I'd love to keep this box in switzerland as well ;) > >Thanks for the input, mosh will be a topic I will update the ML if the interest is there - I'm looking forward to see how it behaves on sat connections etc. > >Silvan > >Am 01.06.2012 10:36, schrieb Stanislav Sinyagin: > >> >>but actually for your purpose, I would just buy the cheapest VPS at >>http://www.buildyourvps.com/ >> >> >>I've got one for about $35 a year. The machine (or probably the network) is >>heavily oversubscribed, but you get a virtual machine on a dedicated IP >>address. >> >> >> >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Stanislav Sinyagin <[email protected]> >>>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:24 AM >>>Subject: Re: [swinog] hosting for 1 powersupply with lan port >>> >>> >>>Silvan, I would highly recommend pcengines.ch instead. They are quickly >>>available (usually shipped the next day after ordering) from a Swiss store, >>>and so far they are the cheapest linux boxes that I could find. I'm using >>>them exactly for the same purpose - as ssh jumphosts :) >>> >>> >>>http://linux.voyage.hk/ is a flavor of Debian specifically tailored for >>>these boxes. It mounts the root in read-only mode by default, so your CF >>>storage is written only when needed. >>> >>> >>>here I put a few related notes in my blog: >>>http://txlab.wordpress.com/tag/voyage-linux/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>________________________________ >>>> From: Silvan M. Gebhardt <[email protected]> >>>>To: [email protected] >>>>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:10 PM >>>>Subject: [swinog] hosting for 1 powersupply with lan port >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Hi Swinogers, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>I'm currently thinking about deploying a Sheevaplug or similar with mosh >>>>(http://mosh.mit.edu) as a login jumphost since I am several hours in >>>>mobile mode every day and I need a space outside of my network to host a >>>>*jump host* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>please contact me offlist and offer me housing for something like >>>>that: http://www.plugcomputer.eu/ >>>> >>>> >>>>All I am taking up is some bandwith (expected bandwith in average probably >>>>1mbit max, half of it for keepalives for outbound vpn tunnels, >>>>Power consumption apparently less than 10watts. >>>> >>>> >>>>Need v6 and v4 connection, 1 IP each, public, not firewalled, 1 Plug in the >>>>power strip >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Since this is a rather non-standard thing I'm looking for, but I need it in a datacenter outside my infrastructure, I thought it's best to ask here. >>>> >>>> >>>>Btw, for anyone experienced already or looking into mosh, looking forward >>>>for exchange here >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Good Evening! >>>> >>>> >>>>Silvan >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>swinog mailing list >>>>[email protected] >>>>http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>swinog mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > > >_______________________________________________ >swinog mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > > >
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