[LEDE-DEV] subversive idea for cert alerts

[Dave Taht]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Alberto Bursi <alberto.bursi at outlook.it> wrote:
> On 12/24/2016 12:21 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
>> I think a cool subversive thing people could do would be to have a set
>> of stickers we could apply to routers in a retailer that had a LARGE
>> WARNING label pointing to the relevant cert alert - and including
>> steerage to a public firmware like lede that fixed the problem for
>> that model.
>>
>> http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/12/23/netgear_router_vuln/
>>
>
> Do you really want to link open source firmwares (LEDE or whatever) with
> these kinds of lame teenage vandalism?

I would argue merely attaching the cert alert would not be vandalism
but a public service.

But you are right, promoting an alternative firmware would probably go too far.

> (because attacking stickers to stuff on sale is vandalism, in case you
> don't know)

Didn't. As such things go, it's trivial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism

>
> The things that people do in the name of "activism" these days...
> Imho that's a plain bad idea, not "cool" nor "subversive" in any way.
>
> -Alberto
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