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It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into another machine to infect it. They'll have to be systematically reformatted pretty often...
I don't think it's a big deal for people running linux!
It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into another machine to infect it. They'll have to be systematically reformatted pretty often...
I don't think it's a big deal for people running linux!
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I don't think it's a big deal for people running linux!
Someone could always re-wire the thing into mains power, in all probability destroying anything connected to it regardless of any software it might be running.
It is a bad idea to plug untrusted hardware into your computer. Many Windows users have autorun enabled, so could be infected with malware as soon as they plug it in. This has been exploited by people pretending to run promotions and handing out infected USB drives in front of targeted businesses. Worse than autorun, there have been buffer overflows against USB drivers and proof-of-concept exploits that allowed Firew…
How do they get power?
I even did some drawing and thought of solar pannels and batteries to keep it going non-stop. What demotivated me was the fact I'm living in Brazil and normal filesharing is still much easier and non-risky...
Anyway, a wifi box like this would be much more secure if done right. A complementary idea I also thought of was to make the boxes communicate with each other, much like a cloud you could access from any reachable access point.