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Re: Trusting COTS - What's really in the box?

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Tue Jun 08 01:53:30 2004 
Sean Donelan wrote:


How do you know what you get in the box is the same as what was
shipped from the factory?  Or was it just re-sealed and put back
on the shelf with an altered configuration?
1. Buy a linksys box off the shelf from radio shack or wherever [factory sealed]

2. Download the latest firmware and/or its source code from ftp.linksys.com, or the wifi-box.net site.

3. Build it yourself

or

4. As these two I mentioned (sveasoft / wifi-box) are open source, trust the developer community to some extent when you download firmware from their site.

srs

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