Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:24 AM, charles@thefnf.org wrote:
On 2014-07-24 12:04, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router https://openwireless.org/ It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software (which works pretty well in my own experience). What will possibly be interesting in this forum is that it's explicitly targeting having open guest wireless access (unlike the stuff being pushed by some ISPs, where you can roam but only to other customers of the same ISP). !DSPAM:53d13dc965333732154236!
The Free Network Foundation (which I co founded and am CTO of) has been helping several groups in the USA do this for ~1 year now. EFF is simply rebranding/respinning community networking, but they are pretty new to the USA Free Networks party overall. They just have a bigger budget/brand recognition (though FreedomTower has become a pretty resilient brand based on the e-mails we get on a daily basis). Also I'm not sure of the level of support/hand holding/documentation etc EFF will provide for folks wanting to build a network off this setup (I'm guessing not much). Also most incumbent carriers prevent sharing (where FNF supported/assisted/collaborative/affiliated US based efforts back haul (over high capacity wifi or VPN over incumbent circuits) to wholesale colocation facilities POP and do things like monitor abuse@ contacts etc. (Ya know, actually responsibly run an ISP).
I'd rather of seen them partner with FNF, (or actually much more preferable would be upstream wrt projects like QMP) and not spin YET ANOTHER FIRMWARE.
I'm glad they picked CeroWRT though.