I'm wondering what might be recommended choices at this point for someone looking for an inexpensive, wired MITM / Firewall platform.
P.S. It would be great if it also had decent on-board wireless for e.g. making a portable hardware firewall device.
Gigabit Ethernet, even. Do wish the USB could be >= 3, but for $40, I'm not going to complain.
Mali™-450 GPU (3 Pixel-processors + 2 Vertex shader processors)
I haven't really examined it, though. Maybe there's also a binary blob loaded into the GPU itself or something (the Raspberry Pi does that, for example).
Hopefully they don't need to use a closed-source blob for the C2.
if you're okay with it, you have a LOT more options than if you aren't. perhaps if we start having dedicated routers and networks for the backdoored insecure stuff they'll start realizing that at the end of the day they're being pretty fucking obvious.
no comment on other governments stuff. if they're there, at least they aren't obvious.
Me I'd be more worried about the WiFi module, thought stopping to think, if the WiFi module driver isn't open source that's a worry too.
The wifi driver is open source, however with a binary blob for WiFi and Bluetooth firmware.
The AllWinner stuff is concerning because they weren't exactly transparent about things.
However, the Octavo stuff looks like your bog-standard chips from BeagleBone/TI just all smashed onto the same substrate. You could decap the module and see if that's true.
>OT, sort of, but a while back I saw one of these... "Pi-like" boards that had two Ethernet ports. It also had significantly more horsepower. I'm wondering what might be recommended choices at this point for someone looking for an inexpensive, wired MITM / Firewall platform.
There are a lot of very interesting, very cheap boards!