On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 03:00 PM,
cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Is a hackable qube? or pretty secure?
I asked this in Nov/ December, the replies I got are in the list
archive.
In summary, the Qube 2 seems more hackable than alternatives, it was
recommended to put it behind a NAT for sure, and run security utils
that would let me know if someone was messing around with it. The
updates from Sun for these are not super current. I do know a couple
people who use them for web/ftp/mail and they haven't had problems to
date, and certainly no one is posting here frequently saying "I'm
hacked".
My conclusion, which may or may not be right for you, is that
although it seems possible to make them secure if you really want to
do it, to do so would take a bit of involvement on your part, and even
then might not be ideal. Not to mention the hardware limitations in
the Cobalt kernel. There are a couple of people on this list who
provide professional custom support for Cobalt stuff who might have
some help, too, but it might be paid professional help. There was at
one time a pretty comprehensive archive (apparently) of prepared items
for the Qube 2, but it's offline now.
It may be a do-it-yourself for you, but it was more than I wanted to
mess with, I put a different OS on my Qube 2 that has more current and
ready-to-compile-or-run software readily available.
I think most people put it behind a Linksys or similar home NAT box,
and limit the ports that are forwarded to it, and are pretty much
fine. I especially wanted a big HD and to run some items that would
be hard/impossible for me to get going on the Cobalt OS.
Brian
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