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I've never done a project using a board like this, so out of ignorance: Does LTS support usually matter, if you're using the device for a stand-alone applicati

• idiotsecant 3y ago
  depends on whether you care about vulnerabilities or not, I suppose. Presumably that lighting controller talks to something. If it talks to a local network only and it's impossible for external traffic to reach it, maybe not such a big deal. If that's not true it might be significant. That's also true of all IoT junk anyhow, it's all running some linux variant under the hood and security / updating is rarely a major concern.
  • CoastalCoder 3y ago
    That's what I was thinking. I was assuming that e.g. the lighting controller would only have 3 modes of access enabled: (1) USB commections (2) wired ethernet during admin (3) ZWave via a USB adapter
    • yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
      This is actually one of the reasons I like bluetooth/zigbee/z-wave/IR/etc. so much - it puts a significant barrier to attacking devices even if they don't get patches. Of course, you still should pay attention to security and update them if possible because local and/or proxied attacks are still a thing, but it's much less likely to get hit.
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