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Unfortunately this is also a recipe of dropping an unpatched unmaintainable Linux machine on the network to provide interesting security challenges in the futur
by fulafel 5y ago
Unfortunately this is also a recipe of dropping an unpatched unmaintainable Linux machine on the network to provide interesting security challenges in the future.
- BelenusMordred 5y agoSomething like PostmarketOS is likely a better choice if it is supported for your device.
- outsomnia 5y agoRight, they are at least trying to use current, updatable kernels. Vendor kernels are a continual security apocalypse that never ends. https://source.android.com/security/bulletin https://source.android.com/security/bulletin
- cookiengineer 5y agoFor people that are not aware: ArchLinuxARM [1] is an unofficial Arch based distro for all kinds of ARM devices. Using it for my router, firewall and NAS hardware - and can totally recommend it. [1] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms
- cunidev 5y agopostmarketOS has much more active mainline work though
- atatatat 5y agoSo...most Android phones?
- mattowen_uk 5y agoAren't most dedicated home NAS units basically 'an unpatched unmaintainable Linux machine' also ?
- Wronnay 5y agoI think most ppl here have something like a Synology which isn’t too bad with updates… Of course, my Buffalo NAS can’t compete with that and got fewer updates than my old phone…
- techrat 5y agoMy Lenovo NAS, despite continuing to be sold well past when Linux Kernel v4.19 was released... is still on 2.6.32 It is no longer connected to an internet facing network.
- rustymatter 5y agoWhy do you care if you don't open any port on the phone to the public internet? It should be fine running locally in your home network.