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Not sure what you mean by "these type of devices", but you will be overjoyed that on Raspbian, updating the system is as easy as `apt-get udate && apt-get -y up
by rdancer 11y ago
Not sure what you mean by "these type of devices", but you will be overjoyed that on Raspbian, updating the system is as easy as `apt-get udate && apt-get -y upgrade`, the kernel is currently v4.1.13 [1], and the rest of your comment is also FUD.
[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/kernel.img https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/ker...
- Tepix 11y agoI wouldn't call it FUD. Embedded devices tend to get updated less frequently than PCs. Connecting them all to the internet is not helping.
- rorykoehler 11y agoIf security is an issue set it up to run a system cron job to update.
- aorth 11y agoUpdating Raspbian is easy, sure, and I have faith you'll update your media center or the one powering lights in your house, but for $5 I could connect one to all the cows on my farm, or to every car in the fleet of my delivery service, to the soda machine in the office, etc—people are going to use them EVERYWHERE. Then what do we do when we find out that there is a new, practical attack on SHA1, TLSv1.2? Or some exploit in OpenSSL, bash, etc? This is not FUD, this will happen.